staggering
About 2.17 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of stagger
- adjective Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
The army suffered a staggering defeat.
- adjective Lurching, floundering.
- noun The motion of one who staggers.
- noun The condition of being staggered or amazed.
- noun The spacing out of various actions over time.
- noun In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort
Similar words
astonishing astounding impressive stupefying unsteady stumbling lurching weaving exorbitant overwhelming
Often followed by
under and to in blow number gait amount along
Word family
staggeringly
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