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floundering

verb , present participle of flounder

Synonyms and Antonyms of floundering

1 to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

unprepared choristers who floundered helplessly through the musical number

Synonyms of floundering

blundering, bumbling, flogging [British], limping, lumbering, plodding, struggling, stumbling, trudging

Words Related to floundering

jogging, shambling, shuffling

wallowing, weltering

faltering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, tottering

fumbling, muddling

Near Antonyms of floundering

coasting, flying, gliding, kilting, sailing, zipping, zooming

2 to move heavily or clumsily

the car floundered through the heavy wet snow, constantly getting stuck

Synonyms of floundering

barging, clumping, flogging [British], galumphing, lumbering, lumping, plodding, pounding, scuffing, scuffling, shambling, shuffling, slogging, sloughing, stamping, stomping, stumbling, stumping, tramping, tromping, trudging

Words Related to floundering

dragging, flopping, hauling

blundering, careening, doddering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, tottering, waddling, weaving, wobbling (also wabbling)

Near Antonyms of floundering

drifting, floating, hanging, hovering, poising, wafting

Antonyms of floundering

breezing, coasting, gliding, sliding, waltzing, whisking

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