tottering
adjective
1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
- a tottering skeleton of a horse
- a tottery old man
Similar word(s): unsteady, tottery
2. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse
- a tottering empire
Similar word(s): unstable
noun
1. The movement of one who totters.
verb
1. present participle of totter