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Definitions for Tottering

[1] walking unsteadily or shakily.
[2] lacking security or stability; threatening to collapse; precarious: a tottering empire.
[3] to walk or go with faltering steps, as if from extreme weakness.
[4] to sway or rock on the base or ground, as if about to fall: The tower seemed to totter in the wind. The government was tottering.
[5] to shake or tremble: a load that tottered.
[6] the act of tottering; an unsteady movement or gait.
[7] to walk or move in an unsteady manner, as from old age
[8] to sway or shake as if about to fall
[9] to be failing, unstable, or precarious
[10] the act or an instance of tottering

Words related to Tottering

unsettled, vacillating, dizzy, moving, wavering, suspect, fluctuating, weaving, teetering, loose, exposed, rootless, ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful

Words nearby Tottering

totowa, totsiens, totten trust, tottenham, totter, tottering, tottery, tottie, totting, totty, toucan

Origin of Tottering

1150–1200; Middle English toteren to swing < ?

Other words from Tottering

tot·ter·ing·ly , adverb
un·tot·ter·ing , adjective
tot·ter·er , noun

Word origin for Tottering

C12: perhaps from Old English tealtrian to waver, and Middle Dutch touteren to stagger

Synonyms for Tottering

dizzy, fluctuating, moving, suspect, teetering, unsettled, vacillating, wavering, weaving, ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, lubricious, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, not fixed, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery, temperamental, ticklish, tottery, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsteady, untrustworthy, variable, volatile, weak, wiggly, wobbly