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labile
[ ley-bahyl, -buhl ]
adjective
- apt or likely to change:
the labile nature of language.
- (in chemistry, biology, psychiatry, etc.) able or likely to change or break down easily, rapidly, or continually; unstable:
labile emotions;
labile blood pressure;
cellular functions that seem to require different levels of labile zinc.
labile
/ ˈleɪbɪl; ləˈbɪlɪtɪ /
adjective
- chem (of a compound) prone to chemical change
- liable to change or move
Derived Forms
- lability, noun
Other Word Forms
- ···ٲ [l, uh, -, bil, -i-tee, ley-], noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of labile1
Example Sentences
When Didion expresses guilt that her adopted daughter is in such a “labile” state, he offers:
Someone with high IIV might be considered an emotionally labile person.
Inserting Blanchett’s labile performance into a grid or a bubble amounts to a dissection of emotion, which is perhaps what personality types are all about.
“These memories become labile for a short time, and then they actually have to be reconsolidated and laid down again,” he says.
Arias, an exciting and emotionally labile actor, makes Anna a jittery creature, like a woman in the constant throes of a low-grade fever.
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