Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unstably

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-sta-bly
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an unstable manner.

Example Sentences

"The message from this week’s election – and from the angry, at times overtly sexist and authoritarian rhetoric that Mr. Trump used on the campaign trail – is that America is a deeply, angrily, unstably divided country."

Etymology

From unstable + -ly or un- + stably.

Inflected Forms

more unstably (comparative) most unstably (superlative)

Questions

What does unstably mean?: In an unstable manner.
Where does unstably come from?: From unstable + -ly or un- + stably.

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