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wobbly
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wobbly, adj. (wobblier, wobbliest)
1 wobbling or tending to wobble.
2 wavy, undulating (a wobbly line).
3 unsteady; weak after illness (feeling wobbly).
4 wavering, vacillating, insecure (the economy was wobbly).
1 wobbling or tending to wobble.
2 wavy, undulating (a wobbly line).
3 unsteady; weak after illness (feeling wobbly).
4 wavering, vacillating, insecure (the economy was wobbly).
Idiom
throw a wobbly sl. have a fit of nerves.
Derivative
wobbliness n.
THESAURUS
wobbly
aspen, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chattering, choppy, desultory, deviative, dickey, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous, doddering, eccentric, erratic, faltering, fitful, flickering, fluctuant, fluctuating, groggy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, hesitant, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, insecure, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, jerky, lurching, nonuniform, oscillating, oscillatory, palsied, patchy, pendulating, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, rachitic, rackety, rambling, ramshackle, rattletrap, ricketish, rickety, rocky, rootless, rough, scrappy, shaking, shaky, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shivering, shivery, shuddering, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spidery, spindly, sporadic, spotty, staggering, succussatory, succussive, teetering, teetery, tentative, tottering, tottery, trembling, trembly, tremulous, tumbledown, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, vacillating, vacillatory, variable, veering, vibrating, wandering, wavering, weak, wobblingFor further exploring for "wobbly" in Webster Dictionary Online
