CAREENING Synonyms: 155 Similar and Opposite Words

careening

verb

present participle of careen

as in lurching

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the sled careened as it barreled down the hill

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as in staggering

to move forward while swaying from side to side he careened unsteadily to the couch after hitting his head

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as in speeding

to proceed or move quickly sounding its siren, an ambulance careened through the intersection

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Recent Examples of careening Dashcam footage posted on social media shows the aircraft careening down the highway, taking out a light post before coming to a stop. —

ABC News, 17 June 2026 Dashcam footage posted on social media showed the aircraft careening down the highway, taking out a light post before coming to a stop. —

CBS News, 17 June 2026 The pickup was careening all over the roadway, the deputy wrote later that day. —

Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 15 June 2026 The concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour. —

Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 Lyrically, the songs find the pair confronting the unknowability of adulthood all while careening between the intimacy of folk acoustics and the catharsis of electronic music. —

Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026 Sri Lanka was careening from crisis to crisis, then came the Mideast war. —

Diaa Hadid, NPR, 29 May 2026 Since then, Republicans in more states have been careening closer to authoritarianism, adopting laws that undermine fair elections and suppress opposing viewpoints. —

Mary Ellen Klas, Mercury News, 26 May 2026 The first three episodes are a disaster, taking 90 minutes to establish a premise that needs to be wrapped up in the pilot, and littering the plot with enough holes to send even a more polished vehicle careening off track. —

Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026

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As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 June 2026
These are some of the heaviest grooves that Seefeel have created in ages, channeling lurching currents through intricate chains of dub delay.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 May 2026