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Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 14, 2009labile \LAY-byl\, adjective: 1. Open to change; apt or likely to change; adaptable. They are too open to the rest of the world, too labile, too prone to foreign influence. Mifflin may not have been much more labile than the people around him, but he was undoubtedly more aware of his volatility. Faber's prose is an amazingly labile instrument, wry and funny, never pretentious, capable of rendering the muck of a London street and the delicate hummingbird flights of thought with equal ease. They lock themselves in their studies and from the labile, rocking mass of thoughts and impressions they form books, which immediately become something final, irrevocable, as if frost had cut down the flowers. Labile derives from Late Latin labilis, from Latin labi, "to slip." | |||||||||
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