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Unsteady vs Veering - What's the difference?

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Unsteady is a related term of veering.


As verbs the difference between unsteady and veering

is that unsteady is to render unsteady, removing balance while veering is .

As an adjective unsteady

is not held firmly in position, physically unstable.

As a noun veering is

a motion that veers; a sudden swerve.

unsteady

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
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  • *:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:"
  • Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity.
  • Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.
  • Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

    Antonyms

    * steady

    Verb

  • To render unsteady, removing balance.
  • veering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.
  • [H]er mood, though consistently excited, was labile in affect, with sudden veerings from stormy hypomania to fearfulness and agitated depression.'' — Oliver Sacks, ''Awakenings .

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