volatile

About 5.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
2. adjective Of a substance, explosive.
3. adjective Of a price, variable or erratic.
4. adjective Of a person, quick to become angry or violent.

   a volatile man

5. adjective Fickle.
6. adjective Temporary or ephemeral.
7. adjective Of a situation potentially violent.
8. adjective Of a variable etc., having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.

Similar words

vaporific volatilizable evaporable vaporizable explosive changeful changeable fickle unstable inconstant

Often followed by

and organic matter oil oils compounds than fatty substances

Word family

volatileness volatilenesses volatiles