Synonym: explosive, fickle. Similar words: isolation, violation, immolation, tile, hostile, violate, isolate, percolate. Meaning: ['vɑlətl /'vɒlətaɪl] n. a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor. adj. 1. evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures 2. liable to lead to sudden change or violence 3. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments 4. tending to vary often or widely.
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31. A portfolio of more volatile securities is more likely to generate capital losses than a portfolio composed of less volatile securities.
32. A triangle is an efficient system of emotional checks and balances, allowing chil-dren to work out complicated feelings without volatile outbursts.
33. So unless some action is taken to shape globalisation the world will grow more dangerous and volatile.
34. It was even more volatile than a hang-fire on an artillery shell.
35. Volatile organic compounds come from a wide variety of sources, both man-made and natural.
36. Critics say the new accounting standard will unnecessarily create scary, volatile numbers in quarterly earnings reports.
37. Returns automatically become more volatile. Overall market ratings do not allow for one-off payments.
38. It also demonstrated how volatile the presidential race is, with change an ever-present participant.
39. But they believe there will always be a need for hospitals to care for volatile children who have exhausted every other alternative.
40. In contrast to her daughter, Cynthia is volatile, hyper-emotional and needy, inverting stereotypical images of racial difference.
41. Its weekly figures, based on a smaller sample, are more volatile.
42. Q: The changes suggest that Nasdaq stock prices could become more volatile.
43. Especially today, in the current volatile climate, it is vital that leaders steer a clear and consistent course.
44. Steve Spurrier is too volatile, too aloof, to be beloved by any non-Gator.
45. They nevertheless determined to maintain their own dividend levels - even at the risk of dealing in volatile pre-election conditions.
46. However, inter-bank rates are generally slightly higher and certainly more volatile than rates in the traditional market.
47. In the book, Strayhorn comes across as a sympathetic human being, while Stan Getz emerges as a volatile character with a violent temper.
48. Their sodium salts are not volatile,[www.Sentencedict.com] which is why the bicarbonate stops the smell.
49. Prices had not climbed as fast in the first place and were less dependent on volatile international buying.
50. Many new organizations and businesses have been, to lesser and greater degrees, designed to function effectively in this volatile climate.
51. When she came to, the acrid tingling of sal volatile was in her nostrils.
52. Investment may be influenced by interest rates, but also depends on more volatile factors in the economy like businessmen's expectations.
53. High-tech stocks have always been highly volatile, partly because of their past booms and busts.
54. It is highly volatile, and through its impact on productivity affects both supply and demand sides of the economy.
55. It became clear that calm, reasoned arguments were not working in this volatile situation.
56. The lunar surface is also depleted in moderately volatile substances, and the same is probably true of Mercury.
57. Boswell's unhappiness flowed from his own unsteady and volatile character.
58. Their secretion seems to be not food but a volatile potion that has a dramatic impact upon the ants' behaviour.
59. This is partly because changes in institutional stockholding can make markets highly volatile and therefore risky for smaller investors.
60. Volatile and unpredictable exchange rates result in difficulties in interpreting the market's signals.
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