Definition of Volatile

Volatile

Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation.

Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.

A winged animal; wild fowl; game.

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Volatile Quotations

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.
Robert Creeley

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
Wole Soyinka

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
Neil Patrick Harris

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
Guy Ritchie

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
Paul Harris

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
Mary Douglas

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
Philip Roth

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
Paul Kantner

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
Mercedes Ruehl

And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.
Jim Bolger

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
Alex Van Halen

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Volatile Translations

volatile in Swedish is flyktig

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