Adjective: labile
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more labile |
| Superlative | most labile |
Sample Sentences
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Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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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.
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Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.
Adjectives inflected like labile
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin lābor
3. Proto-Indo-European *-elis
4. Proto-Italic *-elis
5. Latin -ilis
6. Latin lābilisbor.
7. Middle French labilebor.
8. English labile
9. Borrowed from Middle French labile, borrowed from Latin lābilis (“slipping, transitent”).
Verbs referencing "labile"
Finnish Adjectives
labiili.