Synonyms for unsteady
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Wobbly
unstable, wiggly, wavering, shaky, treacherous, unbalanced, top-heavy, leaning, ramshackle, giddy, weaving, heaving, precarious, shifting, teetering, uncertain; see also irregular 1, unstable 1.
Inconstant
changeable, fluctuating, vacillating, erratic, variable, uncertain, unfixed, capricious, volatile, unreliable, tricky, shifty, shaky, jerky, fluttering; see also changeable 1, 2.
See unsteady in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Not physically steady or firm:
precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, tottery, unstable, wobbly. See flexibleLacking stability:
infirm, insecure, precarious, shaky, tottering, tottery, unstable, unsure, weak, wobbly. See change, strongCapable of or liable to change:
alterable, changeable, fluid, inconstant, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, variable, variant. (Archaic) various. See changeFollowing no predictable pattern:
capricious, changeable, erratic, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, freakish, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, unpredictable, unstable, variable, volatile, whimsical. See change, continueLacking consistency or regularity in quality or performance:
erratic, inconsistent, patchy, spotty, uneven, variable. See continue, same
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