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Textual thesaurus for "quicksilver"

(adj) mercurial, erratic, fickle

liable to sudden unpredictable change

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


(noun) mercury, atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum

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