unsteady

Meanings

Adjective

  • Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
  • Lacking regularity or uniformity.
  • Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.

Verb

  • To render unsteady, removing balance.

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Origin

  • 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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