teetering

Meaning of teetering

verb
  1. To tilt back and forth on an edge.
    He teetered on the brink of the precipice.
  2. To be indecisive.
    We teetered on the fence about buying getaway tickets and missed the opportunity.
  3. To be close to becoming a typically negative situation.
    Despite appearances, the firm was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

Information about teetering

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of teetering

tee-ter-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • teetering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of teetering

tengerite

Words that rhyme with teetering

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