wobble
v.
move from side to side; sway; tremble, vibrate; be indecisive
n.
tottering or swaying motion; shaking, quaking, quivering; wavering, hesitation
Wobble
wobble
Noun
1. an unsteady rocking motion
(hypernym) movement, motion
(hyponym) shimmy
(derivation) coggle
Verb
1. move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street"
(synonym) coggle
(hypernym) move
2. move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"
(synonym) careen, shift, tilt
(hypernym) move
3. tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"
(synonym) shimmy
(hypernym) vibrate
Wobble
(v. i.)
See Wabble.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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wobble
Synonyms and related words:
alternate, amble, arrhythmia, back and fill, barge, bob, bobble, bounce, bowl along, brokenness, bump, bundle, capriciousness, careen, change, chatter, choppiness, clump, coggle, dangle, desultoriness, didder, disconnectedness, discontinuity, dither, drag, ebb and flow, eccentricity, equivocate, erraticness, falter, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, fluctuation, flutter, foot, footslog, go through phases, grimace, halt, have an ague, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hustle, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jactitate, jar, jerk, jerkiness, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, librate, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, nonuniformity, nutate, oscillate, pace, paddle, patchiness, peg, pendulate, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, plod, prance, quake, quaver, quiver, rack, reel, resonate, rictus, ring the changes, rock, roll, roughness, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seesaw, shake, shamble, shift, shilly-shally, shimmy, shiver, shock, shudder, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stalk, stammer, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swag, swagger, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, tic, tittup, toddle, topple, toss, totter, traipse, tremble, tremor, trip, trudge, turn, twitch, twitter, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacillate, variability, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, wamble, wave, waver, wax and wane, weave, whimsicality, wiggle
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.