routine vs unsteady

routine

noun
  • A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. 

  • A set piece of an entertainer's act. 

  • A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically. 

  • A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine. 

adj
  • Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others. 

  • According to established procedure. 

  • Regular; habitual. 

unsteady

adj
  • Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior. 

  • Lacking regularity or uniformity. 

  • Not held firmly in position, physically unstable. 

verb
  • To render unsteady, removing balance. 

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