• IPA: /ʌnˈstɛdi/

unsteady (comparative unsteadier, superlative unsteadiest)

1. Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.

   A slightly unsteady item of furniture.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: […]"

2. Lacking regularity or uniformity.
3. Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.

• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky; see also Thesaurus:rickety
• (lacking regularity or uniformity) chaotic, irregular, unstable; see also Thesaurus:unsteady

• steady

• Portuguese: instável
• Russian: неусто́йчивый

• Portuguese: instável, volúvel
• Russian: неусто́йчивый
• Spanish: irregular

• German: unstet
• Portuguese: inconstante, volátil
• Russian: неусто́йчивый

unsteady (unsteadies, present participle unsteadying; past and past participle unsteadied)

1. To render unsteady, removing balance.