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Volatile   /vˈɑlətəl/   Listen
Volatile

adjective
1.
Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.  "Volatile solvents"  Antonym: nonvolatile.
2.
Liable to lead to sudden change or violence.  Synonym: explosive.  "A volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
3.
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments.  Synonym: fickle.  "A flirt's volatile affections"
4.
Tending to vary often or widely.  "Volatile emotions"
noun
1.
A volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor.



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"Volatile" Quotes from Famous Books



... somewhat chastened in spirit. But her volatile nature soon survived the shocks it had received. By the time the Kansas put her ashore at Tilbury, to be clasped in the arms of a timid and tearful aunt, she was ready as ever for the campaign of glory she had mapped out in London ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... variation of the formula with which we are familiar:— "Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas. The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... and Scotch half-breeds have already done this successfully; but very few of French descent have yet made any real attempt at it." Perry was right. These people had the blood of the nomad and the volatile in their veins. Perry continues, "As farming is the inevitable pursuit of the French half-breeds, all who are friendly to them should agree in urging and encouraging them to remain on their present holdings, ...
— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth
... bladder or reins{152:1}: The juice decocted with honey and wine, Dr. Needham affirms he has often cur'd the scorbut with. This wine, exquisitely made, is so strong, that the common sort of stone-bottles cannot preserve the spirits, so subtile they are and volatile; and yet it is gentle, and very harmless in operation within the body, and exceedingly sharpens the appetite, being drunk ante pastum: I will present you a receipt, as it was sent me by a fair lady, and have ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn
... really thought of it all I do not know. I have a kind of suspicion that deep down in his heart every Scot entertains a contempt for the volatile and frivolous English which is only equalled by that of the English for the nation to whom I once heard a Highland minister refer as "the giddy and godless French"; but Robin was not given to the revelation of his private thoughts. He seldom spoke of the Twins to me—he was a discusser ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay


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