Dictionary Definition
tottering adj
1 unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age;
"a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn:
tottery]
2 (of structures or institutions) having lost
stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering
empire"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
tottering- present participle of totter
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lissajous figure, alternation, ambling, ambulation, anile, back-and-forth, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, collapsing, coming and going,
crabbed, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail,
debilitated,
deciduous, declining, declivitous, decrepit, decurrent, deliberate, descendant, descending, dilapidated, doddered, doddering, doddery, down, down-reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping, dropping, easy, ebb and flow, falling, faltering, feeble, flagging, fluctuation, flux and
reflux, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, fossilized, gentle, gerontal, gerontic, going on foot,
gradual, groggy, halting, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, indolent, infirm, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marching, moderate, mossbacked, moth-eaten,
mummylike, on the
decline, on the descendant, on the downgrade, on the skids, on the
wane, oscillation,
palsied, papery-skinned,
pedestrianism,
pendulation,
perambulation,
plummeting, plunging, poking, poky, ramshackle, ravaged with age,
reciprocation,
relaxed, reluctant, rhythmic play,
ricketish, rickety, rocky, run to seed, rusty, sagging, sauntering, seesaw, seesawing, senile, setting, shaky, shifting, shriveled, shuffling, sine wave, sinking, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as
molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going,
slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running,
slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, spidery, spindly, staggering, stricken in
years, strolling,
submerging, subsiding, teeter, teeter-totter,
teeter-tottering, teetering, teetery, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride,
timeworn, to-and-fro,
toddling, tortoiselike, tottery, tramping, treading, trudging, tumbledown, turtlelike, unhurried, unsteady, ups and downs,
vacillation,
variation, vicissitude, waddling, walking, wavering, weak, wigwag, withered, wizened, wobbly