Concept cluster: Actions > Unsteadiness or imbalance
n
Having uncertain movements while walking.
adj
Reeling; spinning or moving unsteadily, especially from shock, surprise, or confusion.
adj
(Ireland) unsteady, wobbly, tottering, rickety (likely to fall over)
n
cavillation
adv
With a cavorting motion or manner.
n
Output fluctuation before reaching a stable condition.
adj
shaky; unsteady
adv
With a furtive creeping motion.
adj
Tending to dabble.
adj
Characterised or marked by dawdling
adv
In a dawdling manner.
v
To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something.
n
A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
adj
Doddering, trembly, shaky.
adj
(UK, dated) Having an unsteady gait.
adj
hesitant, halting
adv
With fidgeting motions; with impatient inability to keep still.
n
A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.
adj
Characterised or marked by fidgetting
adj
Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.
adv
With flailing motions.
adj
Characteristic of a flail, or characterised by flailing
adj
Making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).
n
One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
n
The act of one who flounders; a clumsy struggle.
adv
In a floundering manner; with awkward struggles.
adj
(figuratively) (of a speech) moving from topic to topic, not focused
n
A state of agitation.
adv
In a fluttering manner.
adv
In a fumbling manner; while fumbling.
adj
(obsolete, figuratively) Of a thing, especially a ship: unsteady, as if dizzy.
adj
Characterised or marked by grappling
adv
In a halting or limping manner; full of pauses or hesitation.
n
A feigned exhibition of distress, usually with implied inaction or vacillating in the face of a dilemma or crisis.
adj
Hesitant; indecisive.
n
The act of saying "haw", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
adv
So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment.
n
(medicine) Extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.
adv
With jerking motions; unsteadily.
v
(intransitive) To be nervous.
adv
So as to jitter.
adj
(rare) characterised or marked by jittering
adj
Having jitter, or unwanted signal characteristics.
adv
In a jolting way; with abrupt, uneven shakes or knocks.
adj
Fantastic; restless; flickering; uncertain.
adv
In a limping manner; with a limp.
adv
With a lurching motion.
adj
(informal) Moving with a lurch.
adj
Hesitating; hesitant; wavering.
adj
vacillating
adj
indecisive or hesitant
n
The act of something that quavers.
n
One who quivers.
adv
While quivering, or as if quivering
adj
Characterised or marked by quivering.
adj
Characterised or marked by rambling
adj
Confused and irregular; awkward.
adj
Obsolete form of rampant. [(originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.]
adj
Moving in jerks.
adj
giddy; unsteady
n
A shaky or unsteady gait.
adj
Having the medical condition of rickets.
adj
Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.
adv
Strugglingly.
adj
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
adj
(dialectal) Loose-jointed, shambling.
adj
Wavering; undecided.
adj
Shambling; not coordinated or graceful; clumsy.
n
(rare) A shambolic situation.
adj
Indecisive; wavering.
adj
(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) shaky
adj
skittish
adj
skittish
adv
With a slouching posture or motion.
adj
moving slowly on foot
v
To write illegibly.
adv
With squirming motions.
adj
Lurching, floundering.
adj
staggering
adj
Of speech: irregular or halting.
adv
In a stammering manner, done with a stammer or stutter.
v
To hesitate, vacillate or procrastinate.
v
To act in a disorderly and irregular way
adj
Characterised or marked by straggling.
adj
Characterised or marked by stumbling
adv
In a stumbling way; unsteadily, haltingly.
adj
prone to stumble
adj
That stutters.
adj
Tending to stutter.
adj
(rare) Uncoordinated, bumbling.
n
A precarious motion or situation, risking a fall or collapse.
adv
While teetering, or as if teetering.
adj
(obsolete) uncertain; inconstant; slippery
adj
(metonymically) unsteady, askew
adj
shaky; unsteady
adj
Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
adj
Characterised or marked by tottering
adj
(US, informal) Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; unsteady.
n
(obsolete) A stammering or stuttering.
adj
nervous; fidgety
adj
susceptible to twitching a lot.
adj
Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.
adv
In a vacillating manner; uncertainly, waveringly.
n
Indecision in speech or action.
adj
Liable to waver; irresolute and hesitant.
adv
In a wambling manner; shakily; unsteadily.
adj
(dialect) Shaky, unsteady, dizzy, queasy, nauseous.
adj
Liable to waver; inconstant.
adj
Fluctuating, uncertain, undetermined, unsteady.
adj
(rare) wavering; unsteady
adj
(rare) Characterised or marked by wavering
adj
Tending to waver; uncertain or hesitant.
adj
Not steady; gusty or insubstantial.
adj
Wavering; lacking in commitment, certainty, or support; namby-pamby.
adj
Characterised or marked by wobbling
adv
In a wobbly manner.
adj
somewhat wobbly
adj
Unsteady and tending to wobble.
adj
(chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
adv
With a writhing motion.

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