Usually means: Not stable or firm; wavering.
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  1. unsteadily: Merriam-Webster
  2. unsteadily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unsteadily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unsteadily: Vocabulary.com
  5. Unsteadily, unsteadily: Wordnik
  6. unsteadily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unsteadily: Wiktionary
  8. unsteadily: Dictionary.com
  9. unsteadily: Rhymezone
  10. unsteadily: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. unsteadily: FreeDictionary.org
  12. unsteadily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. unsteadily: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. unsteadily: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. unsteadily: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unsteadily)

▸ adverb:  In an unsteady manner, so as to shake or falter.
▸ adverb:  In an uncertain manner; with hesitation or timidity.

Similar:
falteringly, uncertainly, wamblingly, swayingly, unsteadfastly, stumblingly, shakily, unstably, jerkingly, fitfully, more...

Opposite:
steady, steadfast, stable

Types:
precariously, shakily, unbalanced, more...

Phrases:
walk unsteadily, walking unsteadily, moves unsteadily, walked unsteadily, to walk unsteadily, more...

Colors:
    gray,     pale yellow,     light brown,     dull green,     muted orange, more...



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Similar:
falteringly, uncertainly, wamblingly, swayingly, unsteadfastly, stumblingly, shakily, unstably, jerkingly, fitfully, more...

Opposite:
steady, steadfast, stable

Types:
precariously, shakily, unbalanced, more...

Phrases:
walk unsteadily, walking unsteadily, moves unsteadily, walked unsteadily, to walk unsteadily, moving unsteadily, move unsteadily, balance unsteadily, staggered unsteadily, walks unsteadily, more...

Colors:
    gray,     pale yellow,     light brown,     dull green,     muted orange, more...



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