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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | faint-hearted, fluctuant, frightened, hesitant, impotent, indecisive, ineffectual, infirm, insecure, irresolute, laid-back*, nerveless, nervous, palsied, powerless, shaky, soft, spineless, tender, timorous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unstable, unsure, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed, wimpy, wishy-washy, wobbly, zero* |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, confident |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jarring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jolting |
| Synonyms: | agitating, bouncy, bumpy, crushing, disconcerting, jerky, jiggly, jouncy, jumpy, rocky, rough, shaking, smashing, staggering, uneven, unsettling, wiggly, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | firm, smooth, steady |
| Main Entry: | unstable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful |
| 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, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unsteady, untrustworthy, vacillating, variable, volatile, wavering, weak, weaving, wiggly, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, strong |
| Main Entry: | tremulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaking |
| Synonyms: | palpitating, quavering, quivering, shaky, shivering, shivery, trembling, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, unwavering |
| Main Entry: | unsteady |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaky |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, dizzy, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, giddy, groggy, inconstant, precarious, quivery, rickety, rocky, shifting, teetering, tippy, unreliable, unsettled, unsound, unstable, vacillating, variable, wabbly, wavering, wayward, wiggly, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady |
| Main Entry: | laid-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bedridden, broken down, confined, debilitated, declining, defective, delicate, diseased, disordered, down, feeble, feverish, frail, funny*, green*, hospitalized, ill, impaired, imperfect, in a bad way, in poor health, incurable, indisposed, infected, infirm, invalid, lousy, mean, nauseated, not so hot, peaked, poorly, qualmish, queasy, rickety, rocky, rotten, run down, sick as a dog, suffering, tottering, under medication, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, weak, wobbly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tremulous |
| Synonyms: | aquiver, palpitating, quavering, quivering, quivery, shaky, shivering, shivery, trembling, tremulant, twittery, wobbly |
| Main Entry: | quivery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tremulous |
| Synonyms: | aquiver, palpitating, quaky, quavering, quivering, shaky, shivering, shivery, trembling, tremulant, twittery, wobbly |
| Main Entry: | reeling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dizzy |
| Synonyms: | addled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, blind, blinded, dazed, dazzled, distracted, disturbed, dumb, dumbfounded, faint, gaga, giddy, groggy, hazy, light, lightheaded, muddled, off balance, out of control, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, shaky, slap-happy, staggered, staggering, swimming*, tipsy, unsteady, upset, vertiginous, weak in the knees, weak-kneed, whirling, wobbly, woozy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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