English
staggering
Verb
  1. present participle of stagger#English|stagger
Adjective

staggering

  1. Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
    The army suffered a staggering defeat.
Translations Noun

staggering (plural staggerings)

  1. The motion of one who staggers.
    • 1837, Memoirs of Mirabeau (in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436)
      There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
  2. That which staggers something or somebody.
    • 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 […]
  3. In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort


This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Offline English dictionary