titubant

comparative more titubant · superlative most titubant

1. stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy

   His walk had become titubant.

   1928, Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica, volume 3, page 65

   2 more examples

   To these, by the door L. C., the CURATE and the NOTARY, arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant

   1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Macaire, act i, scene 2 (stage directions)

   her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant

   1948, Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies, page 253

   Synonyms: lurching, reeling, staggering, stumbling, unsteady, vacillating