| ADJECTIVE | all | quicksilver, erratic, fickle, mercurial | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
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| NOUN | substance | quicksilver, mercury, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 | a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element |
| Sounds | kwih'ksih'lver | |
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| Rhymes | achiever ... woodcarver: 111 rhymes with ver... | |
| Meaning | liable to sudden unpredictable change. | |
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| Example | "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" | |
| Synonyms | erratic, fickle, mercurial | |
| Broader | changeable, changeful | Such that alteration is possible |
| Catalan | imprevisible | |
| Spanish | imprevisible | |
| Meaning | A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid / liquid at ordinary temperatures. | |
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| Synonyms | mercury, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 | |
| Broader | metallic element, metal | Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
| Substance of | calomel, mercurous chloride | A tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic |
| cinnabar | A heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide | |