'Stuttering' definitions:
Definition of 'Stuttering'
From: GCIDE
- Stutter \Stut"ter\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Stuttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuttering.] [Freq. of stut, OE. stoten; probably of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push, to strike; akin to G. stossen, Icel. stauta, Sw. st["o]ta, Dan. st["o]de, Goth. stautan, L. tundere, Skr. tud to thrust. Cf. Contuse, Obtuse.] To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. [1913 Webster]
- Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stuttering'
From: GCIDE
- Stuttering \Stut"ter*ing\, n. The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stuttering'
From: GCIDE
- Stuttering \Stut"ter*ing\, a. Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. -- {Stut"ter*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stuttering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- balbutient,
- balbuties,
- battology,
- ceaseless,
- ceaselessness,
- chattering,
- constancy,
- constant,
- constant flow,
- continual,
- continualness,
- continuity,
- dysphemia,
- expletive,
- faltering,
- filling,
- halting,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- incessancy,
- incessant,
- machine gun,
- macrology,
- noninterruption,
- oscillating,
- oscillation,
- padding,
- palilalia,
- perennial,
- perpetual,
- perpetuity,
- pleonasm,
- pulsating,
- pulsation,
- quick fire,
- rapid,
- rapid fire,
- rapid recurrence,
- rapid succession,
- rapidity,
- redundancy,
- regular,
- regularity,
- repeated,
- repetition,
- staccato,
- stammer,
- stammering,
- steadiness,
- steady,
- stumbling,
- stutter,
- sustained,
- sustainment,
- tattoo,
- tautologism,
- tautology,
- traulism,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unchanging,
- unintermission,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- uninterruption,
- unremitting,
- unstopped,
- unvarying,
- vibrating,
- vibration