staggering

staggering
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           {astonishing}, {astounding}, {staggering}, {stupefying}]
    

Stagger \Stag"ger\ (-g[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Staggered}
   (-g[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Staggering}.] [OE. stakeren,
   Icel. stakra to push, to stagger, fr. staka to punt, push,
   stagger; cf. OD. staggeren to stagger. Cf. {Stake}, n.]
   1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in
      standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness;
      to sway; to reel or totter.
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            Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
      "The enemy staggers." --Addison.
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   3. To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less
      confident or determined; to hesitate.
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            He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God
            through unbelief.                     --Rom. iv. 20.
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151 Moby Thesaurus words for "staggering":
      amazing, ambling, ambulation, astonishing, astounding, backpacking,
      breathtaking, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, cautious,
      choppy, circumspect, claudicant, confounding, crawling, creeping,
      creeping like snail, deliberate, desultory, deviative,
      disconnected, discontinuous, easy, eccentric, electrifying,
      erratic, eye-opening, faltering, fitful, flagging, flickering,
      fluctuating, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, gentle,
      going on foot, gradual, guttering, halting, herky-jerky,
      heteroclite, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling,
      hoofing, idle, immethodical, inconstant, indolent, intermittent,
      intermitting, irregular, jarring, jerky, jolting, languid,
      languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, lurching,
      marching, mind-boggling, miraculous, moderate, nonuniform,
      overwhelming, patchy, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky,
      rambling, relaxed, reluctant, rough, sauntering, scrappy, shocking,
      shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses,
      slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
      slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
      slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, snatchy, spasmatic,
      spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spectacular, sporadic, spotty,
      startling, strange, strolling, stunning, surprising, tentative,
      thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering,
      tramping, treading, trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unequal,
      uneven, unhurried, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular,
      unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, variable, veering,
      waddling, walking, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly,
      wonderful, wondrous