|
WordNet-Online
Free dictionary and thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms and more...
Hint: double-click any word to get it searched!
Adjective staggering has 2 senses
- lurching, stumbling, staggering, weaving - walking unsteadily; "a stqaggering gait"
Antonym: steady (indirect, via unsteady)
- astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefying - 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"
Antonym: unimpressive (indirect, via impressive)
Verb stagger has 4 senses
- stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen - walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
--1 is one way to walk
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- stagger, flounder - walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"
--2 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children stagger to the playground
- stagger, distribute - to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
--3 is one way to arrange, set up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- stagger - astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
--4 is one way to overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
|