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Tottering vs Swaying - What's the difference?

tottering | swaying |

As verbs the difference between tottering and swaying

is that tottering is while swaying is .

As nouns the difference between tottering and swaying

is that tottering is the movement of one who totters while swaying is the motion of something that sways.

As an adjective tottering

is unsteady, precarious or rickety.

tottering

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
  • Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The movement of one who totters.
  • * George Moore
    • 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, wobbly

    swaying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that sways.
  • An injury caused to a horse's back by violent strains or overloading.
    • (Crabb)