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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsteady
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 as I signed the paper.
▪ She'll be a little unsteady on her feet until the anaesthetic wears off.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Boswell's unhappiness flowed from his own unsteady and volatile character.
▪ From afar, or even up close, the bridge is nothing more than a thin, unsteady shimmer of bamboo.
▪ He touched her almost tentatively, and his hands were unsteady again now.
▪ The rhythm of my sleep was odd, she explained, unsteady as the steps of an old man.
▪ The smile appears forced, unsteady, seems to quaver, though it is frozen in silver nitrate.
▪ The years following this unsteady inaugural were marked by a deepening mutual disdain.
▪ This is the easy part, proving difficult only for those with unsteady hands, poor vision or failure to comprehend.
▪ With his support and encouragement I took my first somewhat unsteady steps towards the production of a unit in financial accounting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsteady

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).

unsteady

"make unsteady," 1530s, from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + steady (v.). Related: Unsteadied; unsteadying.\n

Wiktionary
unsteady
  1. 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

  2. To render unsteady, removing balance.

WordNet
unsteady
  1. 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]

  2. not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn: arrhythmic, jerking, jerky]

  3. not firmly or solidly positioned; "climbing carefully up the unsteady ladder"; "an unfirm stance" [syn: unfirm]

  4. [also: unsteadied]

Wikipedia
Unsteady (X Ambassadors song)

"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.

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.