Doubtful vs Unsteady - What's the difference?

Doubtful is a related term of unsteady.

As adjectives the difference between doubtful and unsteady

is that doubtful is subject to, or causing doubt while unsteady is not held firmly in position, physically unstable.

As a verb unsteady is

to render unsteady, removing balance.

doubtful

English

Alternative forms

* doubtfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Subject to, or causing doubt

or showing doubt, sceptical

Undecided or of uncertain outcome

(obsolete) Fearsome, dreadful.

*, Bk.XIV, Ch.vii:

*:‘With whom,’ seyde Sir Percivale, ‘shall I fyght?’ ‘With the moste douteful champion of the worlde.’

Improbable or unlikely

Suspicious, or of dubious character

Unclear or unreliable

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=E.R. Eddison, title=The Worm Ouroboros

, passage=The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness.}}

unsteady

English

Adjective

(er)

Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.

*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:"

Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity.

Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.

Synonyms

* (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

Antonyms

* steady

Verb

To render unsteady, removing balance.