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Quicksilver

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Noun

1. atomic number 80, hg, hydrargyrum, mercury, quicksilver

a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures

Adjective

2. erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver

liable to sudden unpredictable change

Example Sentences:
'erratic behavior'
'fickle weather'
'mercurial twists of temperament'
'a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quicksilver

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noun
1.  another name for mercury (sense 1)
adjective
2. 
rapid or unpredictable in movement or change
a quicksilver temper

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Quicksilver

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noun
1. 
mercury
see also mercury (sense 3) mercury (sense 3a)
verb transitive
2. 
to cover with mercury
adjective
3. 
of or like mercury
4. 
suggestive of mercury; specif., quick, lively, brilliant, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quicksilver

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n.
See mercury.
adj.
Unpredictable; mercurial: "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" (Sven Birkerts).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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