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unsteady

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Word definitions for unsteady in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Not held firmly in position, physically unstable. 2 Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity. 3 Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior. v To render unsteady, removing balance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "not firm or secure in position," from un- (1) "not" + steady (adj.). Similar formation in Old Frisian unstadich , German unstätig , Middle Dutch onstadich . Meaning "marked by irregularity" is from 1680s. Related: Unsteadily (1550s).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "her unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured the wine"; "an unsteady voice" [ant: steady ] not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn: arrhythmic , jerking , jerky ] ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Unsteady " is a song by American alternative rock band X Ambassadors . It was released as the third single from the band's debut studio album VHS on October 13, 2015.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ unsteady work ▪ an unsteady table ▪ For a few moments he was pale and unsteady but his colour gradually returned. ▪ He walked with the unsteady gait of an old man. ▪ I gave her an unsteady smile. ▪ My hand felt unsteady ...

Usage examples of unsteady.

As he left the supper room Lord Am brose, seeming a little unsteady on his feet, said to her, I have a friend who admires you and wishes to reveal his identity to you, my lady.

In the dim and unsteady light of emergency generators, a sullen group of medical workers was picketing the casualty department, and there was an angry crowd of relatives and parents trying to force their way through with plague-sick people on makeshift stretchers.

He felt as weak as the time he was ill with the quinsy, wandering for days in a raging fever that left him thin and unsteady as a newborn foal.

She hammered on the door, calling out, but there was no reply, and after a while she went back to the sitting-room and dialled the secretarial office number with unsteady fingers.

Pony and made his own unsteady way, stumbling often, but using Hawkwing as a crutch and moving faster than the woman could have ushered him.

There was this time no affectation in the tremulous lips and the troublous, unsteady eyes.

Then with swift fingers he unplaited the long braid of hair that hung down his back, and taking a wooden comb from the drawer of the small, unsteady table, he began to comb out his hair.

It was sudden analepsis images, people, places, events, caught by an unsteady camera, lit with bad light.

But when Camphire began her song he moved suddenly at the edge of my vision, and I heard him draw an unsteady breath.

Unsteady, she balanced it on the rim, then his strong hands held her derriere, giving her the confidence to open herself to his questing tongue.

He had a kind of goony smile, and a dazed expression, and when he bowed to her for the third time, he looked unsteady on his feet.

Straightening up, he pulled back his fist and took two unsteady steps forward, determined to add to the damage already done by Jaycee Beaudine.

His underwear off, the overhead light still on, his prick up like a jutting piece of pink wreckage, he calms her into lying motionless and places a Krugerrand on each nipple, one on her navel, and a number on her pussy, enough to mask the hair with a triangle of unsteady coins overlapping like snake scales.

She listened to his ragged, unsteady breath as he continued to kiss her with soft, little nips of his mouth.

She never thought when she overthrew a queen that thereafter all queens would be unsteady.