tottering

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adjective

Unsteady, precarious or rickety.

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precariousricketyshakyunsteadyunsafeunstablewobblytottery
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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of totter
adjectivetottering (comparative more tottering, superlative most tottering)

comparative more tottering · superlative most tottering

  1. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
  2. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
nountottering (plural totterings)

plural totterings

  1. The movement of one who totters.

    Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]

    1918, George Moore, A Storyteller's Holiday

    Synonyms: precarious, rickety, shaky, unsteady, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe movement of one who totters.

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precariousricketyshakyunsteadyunsafeunstablewobbly

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveunsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

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totteryunsteady

adjective(of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse

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unstable
Also see
precariousricketyrockyshakytipsytotteryunsafeunstablewobbly

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Ancient Greek σφαλερός
  • σφαλερός (sphalerós)wobbly
German wackelnd, schwankend
  • wackelndwobbly
  • schwankendwobbly
Latin cādūcus
  • cādūcuswobbly
Māori hūoioi
  • hūoioiwobbly
Polish chwiejny
  • chwiejnywobbly
Cite this entry
APA

tottering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tottering

MLA

“tottering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tottering. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tottering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tottering.

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