Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unstable |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dizzy, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, fluctuating, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, lubricious, mercurial, mobile, movable, moving, mutable, not fixed, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery*, suspect, teetering, temperamental, ticklish, tottering, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unsteady, untrustworthy, vacillating, variable, volatile, wavering, weak, weaving, wiggly, wobbly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rickety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsound, broken-down |
| Synonyms: | broken, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, imperfect, infirm, insecure, jerry-built, precarious, rachitic, ramshackle, rattletrap, rocky, shaky, tottering, tottery, tumble-down, unsteady, wavering, weak, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | sound, stable |
| Main Entry: | shaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trembling |
| Synonyms: | all aquiver, aquake, aquiver, ashake, faltering, fluctuant, infirm, insecure, jellylike, jerry-built, jittery, nervous, not set, precarious, quaking, quivery, rattletrap, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaking, tottering, tottery, tremorous, tremulous, tumbledown, unfirm, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, wavering, weak, wobbly, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, steady, unshaky, unwavering |
| Main Entry: | tottering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unstable |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dizzy, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, fluctuating, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, lubricious, mercurial, mobile, movable, moving, mutable, not fixed, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery*, suspect, teetering, temperamental, ticklish, tottery, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unsteady, untrustworthy, vacillating, variable, volatile, wavering, weak, weaving, wiggly, wobbly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tottering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insecure |
| Synonyms: | defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, infirm, insubstantial, loose*, open to attack, perilous, precarious, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, tottery, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
