STAGGERY Synonyms

• inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

• vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze

• not secure; beset with difficulties

• so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm

• unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

• (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse

• unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

• lacking stability or fixity or firmness

• highly or violently reactive

• affording no ease or reassurance

• suffering from severe mental illness

• disposed to psychological variability

• subject to change; variable

• subject to change or variation

• not firmly or solidly positioned

• a member of the Industrial Workers of the World

• inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

• an unsteady uneven gait

• a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)

• abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

• the act of moving forward suddenly

• walk as if unable to control one's movements

• move abruptly

• move slowly and unsteadily

• loiter about, with no apparent aim

• defeat by a lurch

• an unsteady uneven gait

• an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

• walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly

• miss a step and fall or nearly fall

• encounter by chance

• make an error

• controlling influence

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

• win approval or support for

• cause to move back and forth

• a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

• move unsteadily, with a rocking motion