Synonyms for Unsteady

Synonyms for "unsteady" (283 found)

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Closest matches (57)

adrift afloat alternating amorphous broken canted capricious careening catchy changeable changeful changing choppy dancing dangerous desultory deviable deviating deviative deviatory

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Noun(2 words)

buckingemotional instability

Adjective(8 words)

chaotic officeclumsier dizzier dizzying dynamicdynamical instabilityerraticerratic tempo

Verb(2 words)

disrupted faltered

Strong matches (85)

fluctuating fluid fluttering fluttery freakish giddy groggy guttering halting hazardous heeling herky-jerky heteroclite ill-balanced immethodical impetuous impulsive inconsistent inconstant indecisive

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Adjective(12 words)

fluctuating gawky giddier hilliestinconsistent pacingirregular movementjitteriest labile lightheaded noisy nonstationary overthrowable

Adjective(3 words)

fluid instable irregular

Noun(8 words)

jerking jitteringlevel of shape irregularitylevel of unpredictabilitylimpingmechanical instabilitymore unbalancedreeling

Verb(1 words)

oscillated

Related words (141)

Adjective(6 words)

rickety rocky shaky unstable variable varying

risky rocky rough roving scatterbrained scrappy shaking shaky shapeless shifting shifty shuffling slack slippery snatchy spasmatic spasmic spasmodic spastic spidery

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Adjective(23 words)

shakier shakieststatic instabilitytemporal tippy tipsier tipsyturbulent flowunbalanced teamunfirm unrelaxedunsound claimunstableunstable energy descriptorunstable influenceunstable structureunstable systemvariable wobblier wobbliest

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wonkiest woozier woozy

Noun(13 words)

spinningstructural instabilitystumbling stutteringtip over easilytoddling toppling tossing waddling warbling wobbler yawing zigzagging

Verb(2 words)

stumbled tipover

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

7 entries

conditiondata qualityphenomenon process propertysignal qualitystate

More specific

9 entries

drifting baselinefluctuating readingnoisy signalshaky tremblingunsteady flowunsteady heat transferunsteady reactionwobbly

Collocations

6 entries

unsteady flowunsteady gaitunsteady handunsteady signalunsteady stateunsteady weather

Inflections

2 entries

unsteadier unsteadsiest

Derivations

2 entries

unsteadily unsteadiness

Antonyms

1 entries

steady

similar

28 entries

aflicker agitated arrhythmic convulsive faltering flickering fluctuating irregular jerking jerky palpitant palpitating quavering shaky shifting shifty

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Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I observed that his hands were unsteady.

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I drank too much and was unsteady on my feet.

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He was unsteady on his feet.

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The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap jingled as he strode.

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Unsteady