unsteady

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: un=stead=y
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unsteady, adj. (unsteadier, unsteadiest)
1 not steady or firm.
2 changeable, fluctuating.
3 not uniform or regular.

Derivative

unsteadily adv. unsteadiness n.

THESAURUS

unsteady

adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, broken, canted, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, dancing, dangerous, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doddering, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, erose, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, giddy, groggy, guttering, halting, hazardous, heeling, herky-jerky, heteroclite, ill-balanced, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, leaning, listing, lopsided, lurching, mazy, mercurial, mobile, moody, motley, moving, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, off-balance, overbalanced, patchy, perilous, pluralistic, precarious, protean, provisional, ragged, rambling, ramshackle, restless, ricketish, rickety, risky, rocky, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, slippery, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spidery, spindly, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, teetering, teetery, temporary, tentative, ticklish, top-heavy, tottering, tottery, treacherous, tumbledown, unaccountable, unbalanced, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfaithworthy, unfixed, unhealthy, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsafe, unsettled, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsubstantial, unsure, unsystematic, untrustworthy, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

ROGET THESAURUS

unsteady

Irresolution

N irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision, indetermination, undetermination, unsettlement, uncertainty, demur, suspense, hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness, fluctuation, alternation, caprice, fickleness, levity, legerete, pliancy, weakness, timidity, cowardice, half measures, waverer, ass between two bundles of hay, shuttlecock, butterfly, wimp, doughface, irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted, undecided, unresolved, undetermined, shilly-shally, fidgety, tremulous, hesitating, off one's balance, at a loss, vacillating, unsteady, unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast, capricious, volatile, frothy, light, lightsome, light-minded, giddy, fast and loose, weak, feeble-minded, frail, timid, wimpish, wimpy, cowardly, dough-faced, facile, pliant, unable to say 'no', easy-going revocable, reversible, irresolutely, irresolved, irresolvedly, in faltering accents, off and on, from pillar to post, seesaw, Int, how happy could I be with either!.

Danger

N danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness, instability, defenselessness, exposure, vulnerability, vulnerable point, heel of Achilles, forlorn hope, leap in the dark, road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni, hairbreadth escape, cause for alarm, source of danger, rock ahead, breakers ahead, storm brewing, clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering, warning, alarm, apprehension, in danger, endangered, fraught with danger, dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous, unsafe, unprotected &c (safe, protect), insecure, untrustworthy, built upon, sand, on a sandy basis, wildcat, defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless, unshielded, vulnerable, expugnable, exposed, open to, aux abois, at bay, on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks, at stake, in question, precarious, critical, ticklish, slippery, slippy, hanging by a thread, with a halter round one's neck, between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires, on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano, in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire, not out of the wood, unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared, off one's guard, tottering, unstable, unsteady, shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged, helpless, guideless, in a bad way, reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity, trembling in the balance, nodding to its fall, threatening, ominous, illomened, alarming, explosive, adventurous, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet.

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.