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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-135/
- Published: 2024-12-11T17:15:19.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-11T17:15:18.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

labile (adjective): 

1: readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable

2: readily open to change

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labile?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Labile was borrowed into English from French and can be traced back (by way of Middle French labile, meaning "prone to err") to the Latin verb labi, meaning "to slip or fall." Indeed, the first sense of labile in English was "prone to slip, err, or lapse," but that usage is now obsolete. Other labi descendants in English include collapse, elapse, and prolapse, as well as lapse itself.

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