| ADJECTIVE | all | volatile | evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures |
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| all | volatile, explosive | liable to lead to sudden change or violence | |
| all | volatile, fickle | marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | |
| all | volatile | tending to vary often or widely | |
| NOUN | substance | volatile | a volatile substance |
| Sounds | vaa'lahtahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures. | |
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| Category | chemistry, chemical science | The science of matter |
| Narrower | evaporable, vaporific, vapourific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilizable, volatilisable | (used of substances) capable of being volatilized |
| See also | inconstant | likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason |
| Opposite | nonvolatile, nonvolatilizable, nonvolatilisable | not volatilizing readily |
| Spanish | volátil | |
| Nouns | volatile | a volatile substance |
| volatility | the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor | |
| Verbs | volatilize | make volatile |
| Meaning | liable to lead to sudden change or violence. | |
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| Example | "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" | |
| Synonym | explosive | |
| Broader | unstable | lacking stability or fixity / fixity or firmness |
| Spanish | explosivo | |
| Nouns | volatility | being easily excited |
| Meaning | marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments. | |
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| Example | "a flirt's volatile affections" | |
| Synonym | fickle | |
| Broader | inconstant | likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason |
| Spanish | inconstante, mudable, veleidoso, volátil, voluble | |
| Catalan | inconstant, mudable, veleïtós, volàtil, voluble | |
| Meaning | tending to vary often or widely. | |
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| Broader | changeable, changeful | Such that alteration is possible |
| Spanish | volátil | |
| Catalan | volàtil | |
| Nouns | volatility | the trait of being unpredictably irresolute |
| Meaning | A volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor. | |
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| Example | "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles" | |
| Broader | substance | The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists |
| Adjectives | volatile | evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures |
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