Synonyms for stagger
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Totter — to sway unsteadily, reel, or totter. In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about…
totter, lurch, vacillate, reel, careen, sway, keel, diddle, swag, falter
2. Bewilder
bewilder, shock, confound, astound, astonish, surprise, ring someone's bell, amaze, puzzle, flabbergast, stun, startle, dazzle, perplex, stupefy, flummox, dumbfound
Other
Noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter. In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
She began to stagger across the room.
- v. 2
To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter. To cause to reel or totter.
The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
- n. 1
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
the stagger of a drunken man
Related words
- Word family
- staggerbush staggerer staggeringly staggerweed stammerwort
Example sentences
- lurch I knew you wouldn't leave me in the lurch.
- totter Tom and Mary were playing on the teeter-totter.
By length
- 4 letters
- reel1, sway1, stun1, keel1, swag
- 5 letters
- shock1, amaze2, lurch1
- 6 letters
- puzzle2, dazzle2, falter2, diddle2, totter2, careen2
- 7 letters
- stumble2, startle2, astound2, perplex2, stupefy, shamble2, flummox2
- 8 letters
- surprise2, flounder2, confound2, astonish3, bewilder3
- 9 letters
- vacillate3, dumbfound2
- 10 letters
- distribute3
- 11 letters
- flabbergast3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (amaze2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- tituber
- Italiano
- barcollare
- Español
- titubear
- Deutsch
- schwanken