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unsteady

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈstɛdi/

Definition of unsteady

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not held firmly in position; physically unstable.
    “A slightly unsteady item of furniture.”
    “"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:[…]"”
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adj

  1. Not held firmly in position; physically unstable.
    “A slightly unsteady item of furniture.”
    “"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:[…]"”
  2. Lacking regularity or uniformity.
  3. Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.

verb

  1. To render unsteady, removing balance.

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Etymology

From un- + steady. Like steady, the word first appeared in English around 1530. The word is comparable to Old Frisian onstedich, Low German unstadig, etc.

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