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Tottering vs Waning - What's the difference?

tottering | waning |

As adjectives the difference between tottering and waning

is that tottering is unsteady, precarious or rickety while waning is becoming weaker or smaller.

As verbs the difference between tottering and waning

is that tottering is while waning is .

As nouns the difference between tottering and waning

is that tottering is the movement of one who totters while waning is the fact or act of becoming less or less intense.

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

    waning

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Becoming weaker or smaller.
    • his waning strength
  • Especially of the lunar phase as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
    • the waning moon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
    • the waning of her energy
  • The fact or act of becoming smaller.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings , and sometimes her eclipses.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * awning ----