What is "tottering" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does tottering mean in English? Meaning of tottering definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "tottering" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "tottering": unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

Adjective

  • Meaning: unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
  • Example: a tottering skeleton of a horse a tottery old man
  • Synonyms: tottering tottery
  • Similar: unsteady
  • Meaning of "tottering": (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse
  • Example: a tottering empire
  • Synonyms: tottering
  • Similar: unstable
  • Adjective: Unsteady, precarious or rickety.Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
  • Synonyms:

    unsettled, vacillating, dizzy, moving, wavering, suspect, ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, lubricious, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery, temperamental, ticklish, tottery, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsteady, untrustworthy, variable, volatile, weak, wobbly, fluctuating, weaving, teetering, not fixed, wiggly, loose, vacillating, wavering, exposed, defenseless, frail, hazardous, immature, infirm, insubstantial, perilous, precarious, rickety, rocky, shaky, tottery, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable, weak, wobbly, rootless, fluctuant, open to attack, unshielded,

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