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Adjective tottering has 2 senses
- tottering, tottery - unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man"
Antonym: steady (indirect, via unsteady)
- tottering - (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"
Antonym: stable (indirect, via unstable)
Verb totter has 3 senses
- totter - move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The drunk man tottered over to our table"
--1 is one way to rock, sway, shake
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle - walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
--2 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children totter to the playground
- teeter, seesaw, totter - move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
--3 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
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