ADJECTIVE | all | quicksilver, erratic, fickle, mercurial | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
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NOUN | substance | quicksilver, mercury, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 | a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element |
Sounds | kwih'ksih'lver | |
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Rhymes | achiever ... woodcarver: 114 rhymes with ver... |
Meaning | liable to sudden unpredictable change. | |
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Example | "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" | |
Synonyms | erratic, fickle, mercurial | |
Broader | changeable, changeful | Such that alteration is possible |
Spanish | imprevisible, inconstante, voluble | |
Catalan | imprevisible, inconstant, voluble |
Meaning | A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid / liquid at ordinary temperatures. | |
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Synonyms | mercury, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 | |
Broader | metallic element, metal | Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
Substance of | calomel, mercurous chloride | A tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic |
cinnabar | A heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide | |
Spanish | azogue, Hg, hidrargirio, hidrargiro, hydrargyrum, mercurio, Mercurio, número atómico 80 | |
Catalan | Hg, hydrargyrum, mercuri, número atómic 80 |
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