Unsteady vs Titubant - What's the difference?
unsteady | titubant | Synonyms |
Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
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*:"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.
To render unsteady, removing balance.
stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
* 1896 , , Macaire , act i, scene 2 (stage directions)
* 1928 , Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica? , volume 3, page 65
* 1948 , Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies? , page 253
Unsteady is a synonym of titubant.
As adjectives the difference between unsteady and titubant
is that unsteady is not held firmly in position, physically unstable while titubant is stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy.As a verb unsteady
is to render unsteady, removing balance.unsteady
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobblyAntonyms
* steadyVerb
titubant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- To these, by the door L. C., the'' CURATE ''and the'' NOTARY, ''arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant
- His walk had become titubant .
- her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant