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tottering

(of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"

unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man"

Synonyms:

• Lissajous figure,
• alternation,
• ambling,
• ambulation,
• anile,
• back-and-forth,
• backpacking,
• cautious,
• circumspect,
• claudicant,
• collapsing,
• coming and going,
• crabbed,
• crawling,
• creeping,
• creeping like snail,
• debilitated,
• deciduous,
• declining,
• declivitous,
• decrepit,
• decurrent,
• deliberate,
• descendant,
• descending,
• dilapidated,
• doddered,
• doddering,
• doddery,
• down,
• down-reaching,
• downcoming,
• downfalling,
• downgoing,
• downhill,
• downsinking,
• downward,
• drooping,
• dropping,
• easy,
• ebb and flow,
• falling,
• faltering,
• feeble,
• flagging,
• fluctuation,
• flux and reflux,
• foot-dragging,
• footing,
• footing it,
• footwork,
• fossilized,
• gentle,
• gerontal,
• gerontic,
• going on foot,
• gradual,
• groggy,
• halting,
• hiking,
• hitchhiking,
• hitching,
• hobbled,
• hobbling,
• hoofing,
• idle,
• indolent,
• infirm,
• languid,
• languorous,
• lazy,
• legwork,
• leisurely,
• limping,
• lumbering,
• marching,
• moderate,
• mossbacked,
• moth-eaten,
• mummylike,
• on the decline,
• on the descendant,
• on the downgrade,
• on the skids,
• on the wane,
• oscillation,
• palsied,
• papery-skinned,
• pedestrianism,
• pendulation,
• perambulation,
• plummeting,
• plunging,
• poking,
• poky,
• ramshackle,
• ravaged with age,
• reciprocation,
• relaxed,
• reluctant,
• rhythmic play,
• ricketish,
• rickety,
• rocky,
• run to seed,
• rusty,
• sagging,
• sauntering,
• seesaw,
• seesawing,
• senile,
• setting,
• shaky,
• shifting,
• shriveled,
• shuffling,
• sine wave,
• sinking,
• slack,
• slothful,
• slow,
• slow as death,
• slow as molasses,
• slow as slow,
• slow-crawling,
• slow-foot,
• slow-going,
• slow-legged,
• slow-moving,
• slow-paced,
• slow-poky,
• slow-running,
• slow-sailing,
• slow-stepped,
• sluggish,
• snail-paced,
• snaillike,
• spidery,
• spindly,
• staggering,
• stricken in years,
• strolling,
• submerging,
• subsiding,
• teeter,
• teeter-totter,
• teeter-tottering,
• teetering,
• teetery,
• tentative,
• thumbing,
• thumbing a ride,
• timeworn,
• to-and-fro,
• toddling,
• tortoiselike,
• tottery,
• tramping,
• treading,
• trudging,
• tumbledown,
• turtlelike,
• unhurried,
• unsteady,
• ups and downs,
• vacillation,
• variation,
• vicissitude,
• waddling,
• walking,
• wavering,
• weak,
• wigwag,
• withered,
• wizened,
• wobbly