Synonyms of wobbling

wobbling 1 of 3

adjective

variants also wabbling

as in shaking

marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements

her wobbling gait is due to Parkinson's disease

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shaking
• trembling
• trembly
• quivering
• shuddering
• shaky
• wobbly
• shivering
• tottering
• quaking
• tremulous
• atremble
• quavery
• shuddery
• tottery
• unsteady
• aquiver
• throbbing
• convulsive
• wavering
• shivery
• rocky
• unstable
• pulsating
• palpitating
• wavery
• staggery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stable
• steady
• controlled
• firm
• settled

wobbling

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noun

variants also wabbling

as in hesitation

a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action

the mayor's apparent wobbling on the issue of increased property taxes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hesitation
• pause
• hesitancy
• hesitance
• delay
• faltering
• wavering
• indecision
• vacillation
• irresolution
• uncertainty
• deliberation
• waiting
• fence-sitting
• shilly-shallying
• doubt
• shilly-shally
• hawing
• procrastination
• reluctance
• second thought
• indecisiveness
• debate
• consideration
• indetermination
• incertitude
• avoidance
• arrière-pensée
• misgiving
• indisposition
• unwillingness
• uncertainness
• timidity
• equivocation
• faintheartedness
• shyness
• disinclination
• timidness
• aversion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• determination
• confidence
• resolution
• certainty
• firmness
• certitude
• readiness
• decisiveness
• sureness
• eagerness
• resoluteness
• alacrity

wobbling

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verb

variants also wabbling

present participle of wobble

1

as in jerking

to make a series of small irregular or violent movements

the patient's hand wobbles so much that he can scarcely hold a glass of water

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shaking
• jerking
• shuddering
• quivering
• vibrating
• trembling
• shivering
• swaying
• jiggling
• twitching
• quaking
• convulsing
• jolting
• juddering
• agitating
• swinging
• jouncing
• flickering
• rocking
• throbbing
• joggling
• waving
• fluttering
• bucketing
• chattering
• quavering
• fluctuating
• wavering
• thrilling
• oscillating
• pulsing
• undulating
• pulsating
• palpitating
• doddering
• beating
• pitter-pattering
• pit-a-patting

2

as in lurching

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions

the table wobbled whenever I leaned on it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lurching
• swaying
• rocking
• shaking
• rolling
• jerking
• vibrating
• tossing
• halting
• careening
• tumbling
• faltering
• seesawing
• tottering
• wavering
• stumbling
• waddling
• vacillating
• pitching
• staggering
• hobbling
• floundering
• blundering
• reeling
• weaving
• teetering
• jolting
• oscillating
• bucking
• hitching
• toddling
• undulating
• doddering
• waggling
• wagging

3

as in hesitating

to show uncertainty about the right course of action

we cannot afford to have the governor wobble at this critical time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hesitating
• faltering
• wavering
• vacillating
• dithering
• staggering
• balancing
• waiting
• debating
• teetering
• halting
• hanging back
• swaying
• pausing
• scrupling
• lingering
• shilly-shallying
• delaying
• hawing
• dawdling
• procrastinating
• pondering
• oscillating
• weighing
• hemming
• deliberating
• backing down
• waffling
• equivocating
• considering
• dallying
• hedging
• chickening (out)
• pussyfooting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• plunging (in)
• deciding
• diving (in)
• stirring
• continuing
• advancing
• budging

4

as in faltering

to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side

the drunk stood up, wobbled for a moment, and fell forward

Synonyms & Similar Words

• faltering
• trembling
• shaking
• rocking
• shuddering
• lurching
• tottering
• wavering
• vibrating
• quivering
• teetering
• stumbling
• quaking
• floundering
• toddling
• staggering
• quavering
• reeling
• weaving
• careening

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wobbling

Noun

That wobbling can allow Arctic air from the troposphere — or contained within the polar jet stream — to move elsewhere. —Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 6 Feb. 2026

Moving over to the balance beam, the Bruins struggled at the start, with Matthews falling and Sumanasekera wobbling. —Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026

Most exoplanetary discoveries instead arise through far more indirect means, such as the dip in a star’s light caused by a world passing between its sun and our telescope or the tiny wobbling of a star caused by an orbiting planet’s gravitational tug. —Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025

Verb

This is a man who shows up at a bank with two dubious associates — the glowering, hair-trigger Sal (Moss-Bachrach) and, until his stomach gives out, the wobbling hot mess Ray-Ray (Christopher Sears) — and a bunch of guns. —Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026

Last October, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ignored complaints from Congress and economists to rush through a $20 billion currency swap with the Central Bank of Argentina, aimed at propping up both the peso and Javier Milei’s wobbling presidency. —Ben Smith, semafor.com, 30 Mar. 2026

Republicans, meanwhile, are not eager to advertise that their Senate majority is wobbling like a shopping cart with a bad wheel. —Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026

From Earth’s vantage point—right along the faraway magnetar’s equator—the wobbling disk acted like a film projector’s shutter, periodically occluding our view of the dead star supercharging SN 2024afav. —Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026

One of the frontrunners is wobbling. —Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026

They are carefully balanced so that the rotor spins smoothly without wobbling. —Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026

His posture keeps him from wobbling to either side and falling out of the jump. —Joy Sung, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2026

The president himself devised a solution to put a steady hand on the wobbling controls. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026