Tottering vs Ramshackle - What's the difference?
tottering | ramshackle |
The movement of one who totters.
* George Moore
In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
* Thackeray
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Dominic Fifield
, title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova
, work=The Guardian
As adjectives the difference between tottering and ramshackle
is that tottering is unsteady, precarious or rickety while ramshackle is in disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.As a verb tottering
is .As a noun tottering
is the movement of one who totters.tottering
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train
Synonyms
* (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, unsteady, unsafe, unstable, wobblyramshackle
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There came my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.
- They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
- He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence.
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