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- Dictionarytottering/ˈtädəriNG/
adjective
- 1. (of a person's steps) feeble or unsteady: "she swayed on her feet and took a few tottering steps"
- 2. (of a structure) shaking or swaying as if about to collapse: "all that was left of this historic building were sections of tottering, smoke-blackened walls"
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TOTTERING definition: 1. walking with difficulty in a way that looks as if you are about to fall: 2. shaking and moving…. Learn more.
The meaning of TOTTERING is being in an unstable condition. How to use tottering in a sentence.
Tottering definition: walking unsteadily or shakily.. See examples of TOTTERING used in a sentence.
adjective. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age. “a tottering skeleton of a horse”. synonyms: tottery. unsteady. subject to change or variation. adjective. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse. “a tottering empire”.
TOTTERING definition: walking unsteadily or shakily | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.
1. a. To sway as if about to fall. b. To appear about to collapse: an empire that had begun to totter. 2. To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger. See Synonyms at blunder. n. The act or condition of tottering. [Middle English toteren, perhaps of Scandinavian origin .] tot′ter·er n. tot′ter·y adj.
1. : to move unsteadily : stagger, wobble. 2. a. : to tremble or rock as if about to fall : sway. b. : to become unstable : threaten to collapse. totter. 2 of 2. noun. : an unsteady gait : wobble. Synonyms. Verb. careen. dodder. lurch. reel. stagger.
Things like crashing around the house in her baby walker or tottering along behind her push cart. During eight years (1806-1814) the chief places of the island had been garrisoned by British troops; and the commander of the force which upheld the tottering rule of Ferdinand at Palermo naturally had great authority.
to walk or go with faltering steps, as if from extreme weakness. 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. to shake or tremble: a load that tottered. n. the act of tottering; an unsteady movement or gait.
1. verb. If someone totters somewhere, they walk there in an unsteady way, for example because they are ill or drunk. He tottered to the fridge, got a drink and slumped at the table. [VERB preposition/adverb] The baby began to crawl, then managed her first tottering steps. [VERB -ing] Synonyms: stagger, stumble, reel, sway More Synonyms of totter.
