Unsteady

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not firm, solid, or securely in place; unstable.
  • adj. Fluctuating; changeable: an unsteady market.
  • adj. Not even or regular; wavering: an unsteady voice.
  • v. To cause to become unsteady.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
  • adj. Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity.
  • adj. Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behaviour.
  • v. To render unsteady, removing balance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In mech., having a motion which is not uniform or which does not take place with a constant angular velocity, or around a permanent axis through the center of gravity of the mass. Revolving bodies out of running balance have an unsteady motion.
  • Not steady.
  • To make unsteady; cause to be fluctuating.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. subject to change or variation
  • adj. not firmly or solidly positioned
  • Equivalent
    jerking    uneven    tottery    trembling    convulsive    arrhythmic    spastic    shivering    shifting    shaky   
    Antonym
    steady   
    Verb Form
    Cross Reference
    restless   
    Variant
    unsteadied   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eddie    Eddy    Freddie    Freddy    Reddy    Teddie    Teddy    already    bready    eddy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shaky    uncertain    uneven    erratic    jerky    tremulous    uneasy    hesitant    unstable    fitful