MEANING
Unstable or readily subject to change.
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Words that belong together
- labile mood
- labile compound
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His labile mood complicated the conversation.
The labile compound degraded during storage.
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more labile; superlative most labile where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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