Tottering
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The movement of one who totters.
"Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of totter form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
- 2 Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
Adjective
- 1 (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse wordnet
- 2 unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age wordnet
Example
More examples"An old man came tottering along."