labile C2 Topic:Cause, Change & Process UK /ˈleɪbaɪl/ See IPA manual Freq #138315 Meanings 1 adj liable to change An emotionally labile person. 2 adj Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). 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. Thesaurus Word family Derived forms frigolabilehemilabilelabilizationlabilizenonlabilephotolabilestereolabilethermolabile Related forms labilitylapse Common collocations emotionally labile Adverb + adjective Etymology Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”). Topics Cause, Change & Process External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # labile **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (UK):** /ˈleɪbaɪl/ **Frequency rank:** 138315 ## Meanings 1. liable to change 2. Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). ## Examples - An emotionally labile person. - 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. ## Derived Forms - frigolabile - hemilabile - labilization - labilize - nonlabile - photolabile - stereolabile - thermolabile ## Related Forms - lability - lapse ## Etymology Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”). ## Topics - Cause, Change & Process markdown