stabler

See also: Stabler

English

Etymology

From stable +‎ -er.

Adjective

stabler

1. comparative form of stable: more stable
   • 1850, Mary Cowden Clarke, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales:

     Yet, let me not reproach myself, since the blame is due to her lightness of heart, her fickle fancy—no stabler than gossamer or thistledown—which the first wanton breath wafts elsewhere.

   • 1881, George Willis Cooke, Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy, page 234:

     Here is self-repose, which to our mind is stabler than the Pyramids; here is self-respect, which leads a man to date from his heart more proudly than from Rome.

   • 1980, P. J. Sereda, Durability of Building Materials and Components, page 959:

     Phenol-formaldehyde bonded particleboards were dimensionally stabler than urea bonded particleboards in the decay chamber.

   • 2009 March 30, Eric Pfanner, “European Newspapers Find Creative Ways to Thrive in the Internet Age”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The number of players will diminish, but the strong players may be stabler after the crisis.”

   • 2013, Peter Bergen, Katherine Tiedemann, editors, Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion:

     al-Qaeda's FATA strategy is far less likely to prompt a backlash from local militants and means that the group's position in the FATA is stabler than it ever was in Iraq.

Noun

stabler (plural stablers)

1. A stablekeeper.

Derived terms

• Stabler

Anagrams

• Tablers, reblast, bralets, labrets, Bartles, Balters, blaster, Alberts, Bartels, balters, tablers, Balster

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stabler m

1. indefinite plural of stabel

Verb

stabler

1. present of stable