adj
Meaning 1
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
labile
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈleɪbaɪl/
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rhymes with -eɪbaɪl
adj
Meaning 2
Apt or likely to change.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unstable
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
- Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.
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adj
Meaning 4
Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
liable to change
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an emotionally labile person
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Synonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
(chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”).
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лаби́лен (labílen) — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Bulgarian: неустойчи́в (neustojčív) — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Czech: labilní — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Finnish: labiili — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- German: labil — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Polish: labilny — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Sicilian: làbbili — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Spanish: lábil — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Swedish: labil — liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize
- Bulgarian: лаби́лен (labílen) — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Catalan: làbil — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Czech: labilní — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Finnish: labiili — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- French: labile — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Italian: labile — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Polish: labilny — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Polish: chwiejny — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Polish: niestabilny — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Polish: zmienny — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Sicilian: làbbili — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Spanish: lábil — kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved
- Polish: labilny — able to change valency without changing its form