Adjective: titubant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more titubant |
| Superlative | most titubant |
Sample Sentences
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To these, by the door L. C., the CURATE and the NOTARY, arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant [1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Macaire, act i, scene 2 (stage directions):]
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His walk had become titubant. [1928, Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica, volume 3, page 65:]
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her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant [1948, Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies, page 253:]
Adjectives inflected like titubant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From French titubant, present participle of tituber, from Latin titubāre (“falter”). See: French Adjectives '
titubant'.