| Main Entry: | insecure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, precarious |
Synonyms: |
defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, insubstantial, loose, open to attack, perilous, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly |
Antonyms: |
guarded, protected, safe, secure, sound |
| Main Entry: | shaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trembling |
Synonyms: |
all aquiver, aquake, aquiver, ashake, faltering, fluctuant, infirm, insecure, jellylike, jerry-built, jittery, nervous, not set, precarious, quaking, quivery, rattletrap, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaking, tottering, tottery, tremorous, tremulous, tumbledown, unfirm, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, wavering, weak, wobbly, yielding |
Antonyms: |
firm, steady, unshaky, unwavering |
| Main Entry: | unsure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, insecure |
Synonyms: |
betwixt and between, borderline, distrustful, dubious, fluctuant, fly-by-night, hesitant, iffy, in a quandary, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, lacking, mistrustful, open, problematic, rootless, shaky, skeptical, suspicious, touch and go, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unconfident, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, unreliable, unstable, untrustworthy, untrusty, up for grabs, vacillating, wavering, weak, wimpy, wobbly |
Antonyms: |
certain, definite, secure, sure, undoubted |
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled; vagrant |
Synonyms: |
aimless, destitute, down-and-out, drifting, errant, fancy-free, fly-by-night, footloose, idle, itinerant, itinerate, journeying, mendicant, migratory, moving, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, rambling, roaming, rootless, roving, sauntering, shifting, shiftless, straggling, stray, strolling, transient, travelling, unsettled, wandering, wayfaring, wayward |
| Notes: | a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
Antonyms: |
inhabiting, settled |
| Main Entry: | tottering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insecure |
Synonyms: |
defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, infirm, insubstantial, loose*, open to attack, perilous, precarious, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, tottery, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly |
| Main Entry: | tottery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insecure |
Synonyms: |
defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, infirm, insubstantial, loose*, open to attack, perilous, precarious, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, tottering, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly |