unsteady

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. fluctuating, waving, shifting, vacillating, irresolute, shaky, tottery, wobbly, infirm. See inequality, changeableness, agitation.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Wobbly]

Syn. unstable, wiggly, wavering, shaky, treacherous, unbalanced, top-heavy, leaning, ramshackle, giddy, weaving, heaving, precarious, shifting, teetering, uncertain; see also irregular 1 , unstable 1 .

2. [Inconstant]

Syn. changeable, fluctuating, vacilLating, erratic, variable, uncertain, unfixed, capricious, volatile, unreliable, tricky, shifty, shaky, jerky, fluttering; see also changeable 1 , 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

see unstable

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Not physically steady or firm: precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, tottery, unstable, wobbly. See FLEXIBLE. 2. Lacking stability: infirm, insecure, precarious, shaky, tottering, tottery, unstable, unsure, weak, wobbly. See CHANGE, STRONG. 3. Capable of or liable to change: alterable, changeable, fluid, inconstant, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, variable, variant. Archaic: various. See CHANGE. 4. Following no predictable pattern: capricious, changeable, erratic, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, freakish, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, unpredictable, unstable, variable, volatile, whimsical. See CHANGE, CONTINUE. 5. Lacking consistency or regularity in quality or performance: erratic, inconsistent, patchy, spotty, uneven, variable. See CONTINUE, SAME.