Staggering

Quick meaning: Staggering is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of stagger.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of stagger.

More Meanings

1. Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
2. Lurching, floundering.
3. The motion of one who staggers.
4. The condition of being staggered or amazed.
5. The spacing out of various actions over time.
6. In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort

Example Sentences

The army suffered a staggering defeat.

As a result of the recommendation of the Committee of Inquiry into London Transport, a Government-sponsored scheme for the staggering of working hours in London has been announced.

It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.

But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory[…]

Word Forms

• staggerings

Synonyms for staggering

Depending on context, synonyms include impressive, astounding, unsteady, astonishing, stupefying, lurching.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include astonishing, astounding, impressive, stupefying, unsteady, stumbling.

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