Antonyms for volatile
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : vol-uh-tl, -til or, esp. British, -tahyl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɒl ə tl, -tɪl or, esp. British, -ˌtaɪl |
Definition of volatile
Origin :- 1590s "fine or light," also "evaporating rapidly" (c.1600), from Middle French volatile, from Latin volatilis "fleeting, transitory, flying," from past participle stem of volare "to fly" (see volant). Sense of "readily changing, fickle" is first recorded 1640s. Volatiles in Middle English meant "birds, butterflies, and other winged creatures" (c.1300).
- adj explosive, changeable
- I dare say he had fancied her ladyship as keenly as one of his volatile nature might.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Some are warm, but volatile and inconstant; he was warm too, but steady and unchangeable.
- Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
- Sam was volatile and elusive; his industry of an erratic kind.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- She is young, volatile, capricious, but generous142 as the day.
- Extract from : « The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals » by Ann S. Stephens
- These people had the blood of the nomad and the volatile in their veins.
- Extract from : « Policing the Plains » by R.G. MacBeth
- But the atmospheric effects made no impression on the volatile Merrihew.
- Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
- With all her volatile gaiety, when she chose to say, "I will!"
- Extract from : « Olive » by Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
- Marcia was a throw-back to her grandmother Winter—quick-tongued, restless, volatile.
- Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber
- Turpentine is a volatile oil from the sap of long-leaf pine.
- Extract from : « Handwork in Wood » by William Noyes
- Mercury is a volatile metal which has but little affinity for oxygen.
- Extract from : « An Elementary Study of Chemistry » by William McPherson
Synonyms for volatile
- airy
- buoyant
- capricious
- effervescent
- elastic
- elusive
- ephemeral
- erratic
- expansive
- fickle
- fleeting
- flighty
- flippant
- frivolous
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gaseous
- gay
- giddy
- impermanent
- imponderable
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- light
- lively
- lubricious
- mercurial
- momentary
- playful
- resilient
- short-lived
- sprightly
- subtle
- temperamental
- ticklish
- transient
- transitory
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- up-and-down
- vaporous
- variable
- whimsical
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