Usually means: Not stable, constant, or consistent.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word unsteady:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsteady: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unsteady: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unsteady: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unsteady: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unsteady: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unsteady, unsteady: Wordnik
  7. unsteady: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unsteady: Wiktionary
  9. unsteady: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unsteady: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unsteady: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unsteady: Dictionary.com
  13. unsteady: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unsteady: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Unsteady (X Ambassadors song), Unsteady (song), Unsteady: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. unsteady: Rhymezone
  17. unsteady: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. unsteady: Free Dictionary
  19. unsteady: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unsteady: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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▸ adjective:  Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
▸ adjective:  Lacking regularity or uniformity.
▸ adjective:  Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.
▸ verb:  To render unsteady, removing balance.

Similar:
unfirm, arrhythmic, fluctuating, faltering, irregular, staggering, unfixed, palpitating, tottering, jerky, more...

Opposite:
stable, steady, firm, secure, consistent

Types:
wobbly, shaky, unstable, unbalanced, unfirm, unsecure, unsteadfast, more...

Phrases:
unsteady flow, unsteady gait, unsteady breath, be unsteady, more unsteady, more...

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


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Similar:
unfirm, arrhythmic, fluctuating, faltering, irregular, staggering, unfixed, palpitating, tottering, jerky, more...

Opposite:
stable, steady, firm, secure, consistent

Types:
wobbly, shaky, unstable, unbalanced, unfirm, unsecure, unsteadfast, more...

Phrases:
unsteady flow, unsteady gait, unsteady breath, be unsteady, more unsteady, most unsteady, in unsteady fashion, weak and unsteady, walk unsteady, unsteady movements, unsteady thinking, make unsteady, more...

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



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