jumpy vs unsteady

jumpy

adj
  • Tending to jump; full of jumps. 

  • Nervous and excited. 

unsteady

adj
  • Not held firmly in position, physically unstable. 

  • Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior. 

  • Lacking regularity or uniformity. 

verb
  • To render unsteady, removing balance. 

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