tottering

adj, noun — 3 senses

tottering

adj

1

Unsteady, precarious or rickety.

2

Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

Derived terms: totteringly, untottering

tottering

noun

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

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