stable
adjective/ˈsteɪbl/
Word Family
- stable adjective (≠ unstable)
- stability noun (≠ instability)
- stabilize verb
Слово англійською: stable
Переклад stable українською: стабі́льний, стійки́й (хара́ктер)
Детальний опис
- fixed or steady; not likely to move, change or fail synonym steady
- The patient's condition is stable (= it is not getting worse).
- Cattle prices remain stable.
- The situation in the country has remained relatively stable for a few months now.
- This ladder doesn't seem very stable.
- This would result in a more stable environment for the children.
- a stable relationship
- Efforts to establish a stable democracy in the country may well succeed.
- Put a book under the table leg to keep it stable.
- (of a person) calm and reasonable; not easily upset synonym balanced
- Mentally, she is not very stable.
- He was not emotionally stable enough to think through his decision.
- Psychiatric officials determined that he was psychologically stable.
- (specialist) (of a substance) staying in the same chemical or atomic state
- chemically stable
- an element forming stable compounds
opposite unstable
Word Originadjective Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin stabilis, from the base of stare ‘to stand’.