tottering

tottering
Synonyms and related words:
Lissajous figure, alternation, ambling, ambulation, anile, back-and-forth, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, collapsing, coming and going, crabbed, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, debilitated, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decrepit, decurrent, deliberate, descendant, descending, dilapidated, doddered, doddering, doddery, down, down-reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping, dropping, easy, ebb and flow, falling, faltering, feeble, flagging, fluctuation, flux and reflux, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, fossilized, gentle, gerontal, gerontic, going on foot, gradual, groggy, halting, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, indolent, infirm, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marching, moderate, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, on the decline, on the descendant, on the downgrade, on the skids, on the wane, oscillation, palsied, papery-skinned, pedestrianism, pendulation, perambulation, plummeting, plunging, poking, poky, ramshackle, ravaged with age, reciprocation, relaxed, reluctant, rhythmic play, ricketish, rickety, rocky, run to seed, rusty, sagging, sauntering, seesaw, seesawing, senile, setting, shaky, shifting, shriveled, shuffling, sine wave, sinking, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, spidery, spindly, staggering, stricken in years, strolling, submerging, subsiding, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetering, teetery, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, timeworn, to-and-fro, toddling, tortoiselike, tottery, tramping, treading, trudging, tumbledown, turtlelike, unhurried, unsteady, ups and downs, vacillation, variation, vicissitude, waddling, walking, wavering, weak, wigwag, withered, wizened, wobbly

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • tottering — index insecure, precarious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Tottering — Totter Tot ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tottered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tottering}.] [Probably for older tolter; cf. AS. tealtrian to totter, vacillate. Cf.{Tilt} to incline, {Toddle}, {Tottle}, {Totty}.] 1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tottering — adjective Date: 1534 1. a. being in an unstable condition < a tottering building > b. walking unsteadily 2. lacking firmness or stability ; insecure < a tottering regime > • totteringly adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • tottering — adjective 1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age (Freq. 3) a tottering skeleton of a horse a tottery old man • Syn: ↑tottery • Similar to: ↑unsteady 2. (of structures or institutions) having lost stabilit …   Useful english dictionary

  • tottering — totteringly, adv. /tot euhr ing/, adj. 1. walking unsteadily or shakily. 2. lacking security or stability; threatening to collapse; precarious: a tottering empire. [TOTTER + ING2] * * * …   Universalium

  • tottering — adjective a) Unsteady, precarious or rickety. b) Unstable, insecure or wobbly …   Wiktionary

  • tottering — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Not physically steady or firm: precarious, rickety, shaky, tottery, unstable, unsteady, wobbly. See FLEXIBLE. 2. Lacking stability: infirm, insecure, precarious, shaky, tottery, unstable, unsteady, unsure, weak …   English dictionary for students

  • tottering — tot·ter || tÉ‘tÉ™(r) / tÉ’t v. stagger, wobble, tremble, sway …   English contemporary dictionary

  • tottering — adjective (of a building) shake or rock as if about to collapse. → totter …   English new terms dictionary

  • tottering — tot•ter•ing [[t]ˈtɒt ər ɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) walking unsteadily or shakily 2) lacking security or stability; threatening to collapse tot′ter•ing•ly, adv …   From formal English to slang

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