shaky vs unstable

shaky

adj
  • Wavering; undecided. 

  • Easily shaken; tottering; unsound. 

  • Shaking or trembling. 

  • Full of shakes or cracks; cracked. 

  • Nervous, anxious. 

unstable

adj
  • Fluctuating; not constant. 

  • Readily decomposable. 

  • Not stable. 

  • Radioactive, especially with a short half-life. 

  • Unpredictable. 

  • Fickle. 

  • Having a strong tendency to change. 

verb
  • To release (an animal) from a stable. 

How often have the words shaky and unstable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )