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unsteady
[ uhn-sted-ee ]
adjective
- not steady or firm; unstable; shaky:
an unsteady hand.
- fluctuating or wavering:
an unsteady flame; unsteady prices.
Synonyms: vacillating
- irregular or uneven:
an unsteady development.
verb (used with object)
- to make unsteady.
unsteady
/ ʌnˈstɛdɪ /
adjective
- not securely fixed
an unsteady foothold
- (of behaviour, etc) lacking constancy; erratic
- without regularity
an unsteady rhythm
- (of a manner of walking, etc) precarious, staggering, as from intoxication
verb
- tr to make unsteady
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Derived Forms
- unˈsteadiness, noun
- unˈsteadily, adverb
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Other Words From
- un·steadi·ly adverb
- un·steadi·ness noun
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Example Sentences
He discovered his friend—the worse for wear and unsteady on her feet—in the second-floor living room.
You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.
I was a newspaperman, just returned from the Middle East—a bit unsteady, still, in America.
Besides worrying about how the models would walk on the unsteady ground, audience members knew something magical would happen.
Filigrees of rhetorical precision atop unsteady pillars of conceptual bluff.
The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.
He obeyed without remark, though with an unsteady voice, as he uttered communications he knew were so hostile to her expectation.
Could he be conscious of all this, and not excuse the unsteady youth—accuse himself?
Have you noticed that to write with a steel pen is like walking on unsteady stones with sabots?
With weak unsteady steps he paced his room, and looked at the old Swiss chamois-gun above the door.
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