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stagger

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of stagger

1 to move forward while swaying from side to side

I was so tired last night that I just staggered upstairs to bed without eating dinner

Synonyms of stagger

careen, dodder, lurch, reel, teeter, totter, waddle

Words Related to stagger

rock, roll, seesaw, swag, sway, waver, weave, wobble (also wabble)

barge, blunder, clomp, clump, flounder, galumph, lumber, lump, pound, scuff, scuffle, shamble, shuffle, stamp, stomp, stumble, tramp, tromp

2 to show uncertainty about the right course of action

a daunting problem that would make even the most decisive person stagger just a bit

Synonyms of stagger

balance, dither, falter, halt, hang back, hesitate, scruple, shilly-shally, teeter, vacillate, waver, wobble (also wabble)

Words Related to stagger

dally, dawdle, delay, linger, pause, procrastinate, wait

back down, chicken (out)

consider, debate, deliberate, ponder, weigh

oscillate, sway

equivocate, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle

Near Antonyms of stagger

advance, continue

Antonyms of stagger

dive (in), plunge (in)

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