Usually means: Unsteady, wobbling, about to fall.
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  1. tottering: Merriam-Webster
  2. tottering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tottering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tottering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tottering, tottering: Wordnik
  6. tottering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tottering: Wiktionary
  8. tottering: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tottering: Dictionary.com
  10. tottering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Tottering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. tottering: Rhymezone
  13. Tottering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. tottering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. tottering: FreeDictionary.org
  16. tottering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. tottering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tottering: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tottering)

▸ adjective:  Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
▸ adjective:  Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
▸ noun:  The movement of one who totters.

Similar:
tottery, unsteady, unstable, wobbly, shaky, tottlish, tottersome, rickety, bockety, bone-shaking, more...

Opposite:
steady, stable, firm, secure

Types:
teetering, wobbling, shaky, unsteady, unstable, unbalanced, unfirm, more...

Adjectives:
little, teeter, long, more, old, first, mutant, temporary, pretty, gradual, present

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Similar:
tottery, unsteady, unstable, wobbly, shaky, tottlish, tottersome, rickety, bockety, bone-shaking, more...

Opposite:
steady, stable, firm, secure

Types:
teetering, wobbling, shaky, unsteady, unstable, unbalanced, unfirm, more...

Adjectives:
little, teeter, long, more, old, first, mutant, temporary, pretty, gradual, present



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