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Unsteadily

Definition: Unsteadily

Unsteadily

Adverb

1. In an unsteady manner; "he walked unsteadily toward the exit"; "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unsteadily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Synonyms: Unsteadily

Synonyms: falteringly (adv), uncertainly (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: steadily (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unsteadily

English words defined with "unsteadily": aflickerbumblecoggleDade, Dadle, dodderfalter, falteringly, flick, flicker, flickeringgutterlurch, lurchingpaddlereel, reelerseesaw, stagger, staggerer, staggering, stumble, stumbling, swagteeter, toddle, totter, tottereruncertainlyWabble, waddle, waggle, wamble, weaving, wobble, wobbling. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unsteadily

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Ataxia-Telangiectasia (AT) is a PI syndrome that affects several body systems, and the symptoms grow worse with time. Children with AT have nervous system problems that cause them to walk unsteadily and clumsily (ataxia), as well as dilated blood vessels (telangiectasia) in the eyes and skin. They also develop frequent sinus and respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unsteadily

"Unsteadily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsteadily" is used about 126 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%12628,512

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unsteadily

Language Translations for "unsteadily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

不平稳地. (various references)

   

German

  

wackelig (loose, rickety, rocky, shakily, shaky, tipsily, tottering, unfirm, unsteady, waggly, wobbly), unstetig (discontinuous, unsteady). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ασταθώσ (totteringly, unstably). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

határozatlanul (doubtfully, evasively, indistinctly, vaguely), bizonytalanul (doubtingly, indefinably, precariously, shakily, vaguely). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malfermo (delicate, poor, rocky, shaky, tipsily, unfirm, unsteady, wobbly). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

불안 하게 (shakily). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadilyunstay

   

Spanish

  

flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ostadigt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unsteadily

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n-s-t-u-y"

-1 letter: insulated.

-2 letters: alunites, audients, diluents, insulate, insulted, sedulity, sinuated, steadily, uneasily, unitedly, unlisted, unsalted, unstayed, unsteady.

-3 letters: adenyls, aliunde, alunite, audient, audiles, auldest, aunties, dauties, denials, density, dentals, dentils, destain, destiny, details, detains, dialyse, dilates, diluent, dilutes, dualist, duality, duelist, dunites, dustily, elastin, eluants, elysian, entails, indults, instead, inulase, lunated, luniest, luteins, nailset.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n-s-t-u-y"
 

+1 letter: sustainedly.

 

+3 letters: equidistantly, subordinately.

 

+4 letters: adventitiously, polybutadienes, uncrystallized, undesirability, unrestrainedly.

 

+5 letters: insubordinately, understandingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unsteadily


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 73 74 65 61 64 69 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ...    -    .    .-    -..    ..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#105 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0074 0065 0061 0064 0069 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55808586716770757891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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