'Staggering' definitions:
Definition of 'staggering'
From: WordNet
adjective
So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying" [syn: astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefying]
Definition of 'Staggering'
From: GCIDE
- Stagger \Stag"ger\ (-g[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Staggered (-g[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Staggering.] [OE. stakeren, Icel. stakra to push, to stagger, fr. staka to punt, push, stagger; cf. OD. staggeren to stagger. Cf. Stake, n.]
- 1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. [1913 Webster]
- Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. "The enemy staggers." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. [1913 Webster]
- He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. --Rom. iv. 20. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'staggering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amazing,
- ambling,
- ambulation,
- astonishing,
- astounding,
- backpacking,
- breathtaking,
- broken,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- cautious,
- choppy,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- confounding,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- desultory,
- deviative,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- easy,
- eccentric,
- electrifying,
- erratic,
- eye-opening,
- faltering,
- fitful,
- flagging,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- foot-dragging,
- footing,
- footing it,
- footwork,
- gentle,
- going on foot,
- gradual,
- guttering,
- halting,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hiking,
- hitchhiking,
- hitching,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- hoofing,
- idle,
- immethodical,
- inconstant,
- indolent,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- jarring,
- jerky,
- jolting,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- legwork,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- lurching,
- marching,
- mind-boggling,
- miraculous,
- moderate,
- nonuniform,
- overwhelming,
- patchy,
- pedestrianism,
- perambulation,
- poking,
- poky,
- rambling,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- rough,
- sauntering,
- scrappy,
- shocking,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spectacular,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- startling,
- strange,
- strolling,
- stunning,
- surprising,
- tentative,
- thumbing,
- thumbing a ride,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- tramping,
- treading,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncertain,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unhurried,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- variable,
- veering,
- waddling,
- walking,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- wonderful,
- wondrous