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unfixed

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un·fix  (n-fks)
tr.v. un·fixed, un·fix·ing, un·fix·es
1. To detach from what secures; unfasten.
2. To cause to leave a tranquil condition; disturb.
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Adj.1.unfixedunfixed - not firmly placed or set or fastened
insecure - not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"
fixed - securely placed or fastened or set; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor"
2.unfixedunfixed - lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen
nebulous
indefinite - vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal"
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It was this faculty, more than any other, that made him so fit to ride upon the storm of the Revolution when everything was unfixed and drifting about in a troubled sea.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Rushworth was an inferior young man, as ignorant in business as in books, with opinions in general unfixed, and without seeming much aware of it himself.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
I did not conceive of literature as the expression of life, and I could not imagine that it ought to be desultory, mutable, and unfixed, even if at the risk of some vagueness.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
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