Unsteady

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unsteady \Unsteady\
     See {steady}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unsteady


       adj 1: subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "her
              unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured
              the wine"; "an unsteady voice" [ant: {steady}]
       2: not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn:
          {arrhythmic}, {jerking}, {jerky}]
       3: not firmly or solidly positioned; "climbing carefully up the
          unsteady ladder"; "an unfirm stance" [syn: {unfirm}]
       [also: {unsteadied}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  192 Moby Thesaurus words for "unsteady":
     adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, broken, canted, capricious,
     careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy,
     dancing, dangerous, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative,
     deviatory, different, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous,
     disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy,
     doddering, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, erose, erratic,
     fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flickery, flicky,
     flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fluttering, fluttery,
     freakish, giddy, groggy, guttering, halting, hazardous, heeling,
     herky-jerky, heteroclite, ill-balanced, immethodical, impetuous,
     impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insecure,
     insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute,
     irresponsible, jagged, jerky, leaning, listing, lopsided, lurching,
     mazy, mercurial, mobile, moody, motley, moving, mutable,
     nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, off-balance, overbalanced,
     patchy, perilous, pluralistic, precarious, protean, provisional,
     ragged, rambling, ramshackle, restless, ricketish, rickety, risky,
     rocky, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, shaky, shapeless,
     shifting, shifty, shuffling, slippery, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic,
     spasmodic, spastic, spidery, spindly, spineless, spluttering,
     sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, teetering,
     teetery, temporary, tentative, ticklish, top-heavy, tottering,
     tottery, treacherous, tumbledown, unaccountable, unbalanced,
     uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unequable,
     unequal, uneven, unfaithworthy, unfixed, unhealthy, unmethodical,
     unmetrical, unorthodox, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable,
     unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsafe, unsettled, unsolid, unsound,
     unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsubstantial,
     unsure, unsystematic, untrustworthy, ununiform, vacillating,
     vagrant, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering,
     vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
     wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling,
     wobbly