tottering
Unsteady on feet
Tottering describes unsteady, wobbling movement that suggests imminent collapse.
A toddler totters on new legs; an elderly person totters with a cane.
The word extends to unstable situations: a tottering regime, a tottering economy.
Something that totters sways precariously but hasn't fallen yet.
frail
Weak and breakable
ailing · unwell · sickly · delicate · fragile · wan · pallid · gaunt · haggard · withered
- clumsyclumsy, awkward, bumbling, bungling, fumbling
- Precariousnessprecarious, unstable, wobbly, wobbling, rickety
- setbacksfailing, back to square one, stuck, losing, stumbles
- motionmotion, movement, velocity, speed, momentum
- kid activitiesplaying, running, jumping, climbing, swinging
- age descriptorsaged, elderly, old, young, youthful