1 not completely in control of your movements so that you might fall:
She is still a little unsteady on her feet after the operation.
2 shaking or moving in a way that is not controlled:
an unsteady hand / voice / step
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unsteadily adverb:
She walked unsteadily towards me. * 'I had to see you,' he said unsteadily. * She swayed unsteadily as she got up from the bar.
unsteadiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for unsteady is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unsteady a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unsteady is tagged as adjective.
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