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Unsteady vs Mutable - What's the difference?

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Unsteady is a related term of mutable.


As adjectives the difference between unsteady and mutable

is that unsteady is not held firmly in position, physically unstable while mutable is changeable; inclined to mutate.

As a verb unsteady

is to render unsteady, removing balance.

unsteady

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
  • :
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  • *:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:"
  • Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity.
  • Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.

    • Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

    Antonyms

    * steady

    Verb

  • To render unsteady, removing balance.

    • mutable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Changeable; inclined to mutate.
  • (programming, of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.

    • Antonyms

    * immutable

    See also

    * alterable ----