Synonyms for tottering
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
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
- shaky Your plan is standing on a very shaky base support.
- unsteady I drank too much and was unsteady on my feet.
- faltering They walk without faltering.
- rickety Monday rolled into town on a rickety old bicycle.
By length
- 5 letters
- rocky2, shaky2, tipsy2
- 6 letters
- unsafe2
- 7 letters
- rickety3, tottery
- 8 letters
- unstable3, decrepit3, unsteady3
- 9 letters
- faltering3
- 10 letters
- precarious4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rocky2 = 2 syllables).