Synonyms for tottery
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : tot-uh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɒt ə ri |
Top 10 synonyms for tottery Other synonyms for the word tottery
- fitful
- fluctuant
- fluctuating
- frail
- giddy
- hazardous
- immature
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- infirm
- insecure
- insubstantial
- irrational
- loose
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- open to attack
- perilous
- precarious
- rickety
- risky
- rocky
- rootless
- sensitive
- shaky
- shifty
- slippery
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- ticklish
- tottering
- tricky
- uncertain
- unguarded
- unpredictable
- unprotected
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unsettled
- unshielded
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- volatile
- vulnerable
- wavering
- weak
- weaving
- wiggly
- wobbly
Définition of tottery
Origin :- 1861, from totter + -y (2).
- adj unstable
- adj insecure
- The major closed the latchless door and took the one tottery chair.
- Extract from : « The Escape of Mr. Trimm » by Irvin S. Cobb
- But An' Jerusha, very rheumatic and tottery, went brave as an autumn sunset.
- Extract from : « The Open Question » by Elizabeth Robins
- He tried to stand, but found he was too tottery on his legs.
- Extract from : « The White Crystals » by Howard R. Garis
- Cash was tottery weak from his own illness, and he could not speak above a whisper.
- Extract from : « Cabin Fever » by B. M. Bower
- When I did get up, I felt so tottery that I could hardly keep my feet.
- Extract from : « Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger » by John Masefield
- The Captain was a tottery old man, past the age for any fundamental joy.
- Extract from : « Birthright » by T.S. Stribling
- I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery.
- Extract from : « Before Adam » by Jack London
- Through a barred window the wondering warden sourly watched the crawling, tottery figure.
- Extract from : « The Escape of Mr. Trimm » by Irvin S. Cobb
- What a precious experience now this would have been for a tottery, talkative, owlish old parochial creature like me.
- Extract from : « The Return » by Walter de la Mare
- In this way the ghost of the victim, whose things are carried in the bundle, is supposed to make their enemies weak and tottery.
- Extract from : « The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) » by Sir James George Frazer
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