Synonyms for totter
Definitions
- v. 1
To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.
- v. 2
To be on the brink of collapse.
Forms
- Past participle
- tottered
e.g. tottered → teetered, toddled, staggered, vacillated…
Choose the right word
To reel or totter always implies liability to fall; reeling is more violent than swaying, tottering more irregular; a drunken man reels; we speak of the tottering step of age or infancy.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- stagger The company is attempting to stagger work hours.
- teeter Tom and Mary were playing on the teeter-totter.
- toddle The neighbor's baby has started to toddle.
- tremble I tremble with my fingers crossed behind the door.
- topple The people are determined to topple the regime at any cost.
By length
- 4 letters
- rock1, reel1, sway1
- 5 letters
- shake1, waver2
- 6 letters
- paddle2, wobble2, topple2, falter2, waddle2, teeter2, toddle2, dodder, coggle
- 7 letters
- tremble2, stagger2
- 9 letters
- oscillate3, vacillate3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (waver2 = 2 syllables).