Dictionary

tottering en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
2. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

Forms

Deriveds

untottering · totteringly

Translations (6)

pl chwiejny (wobbly) · de schwankend (wobbly) · mi hūoioi (wobbly) · de wackelnd (wobbly) · grc σφαλερός (wobbly) · la cādūcus (wobbly)

tottering en · NOUN

Meanings

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:

Forms

Synonyms

unstable (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) · precarious (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) · unsteady (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) · unsafe (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) · wobbly (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) · shaky (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) · rickety (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over)

tottering en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of totter
   form of totter