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staggered

verb , past tense of stagger

Synonyms and Antonyms of staggered

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 staggered

careened, doddered, lurched, reeled, teetered, tottered, waddled

Words Related to staggered

rocked, rolled, seesawed, swagged, swayed, wavered, weaved, wobbled (also wabbled)

barged, blundered, clomped, clumped, floundered, galumphed, lumbered, lumped, pounded, scuffed, scuffled, shambled, shuffled, stamped, stomped, stumbled, tramped, tromped

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 staggered

balanced, dithered, faltered, halted, hesitated, hung back, scrupled, shilly-shallied, teetered, vacillated, wavered, wobbled (also wabbled)

Words Related to staggered

dallied, dawdled, delayed, lingered, paused, procrastinated, waited

backed down, chickened (out)

considered, debated, deliberated, pondered, weighed

oscillated, swayed

equivocated, hedged, pussyfooted, waffled

Near Antonyms of staggered

budged, stirred

advanced, continued

Antonyms of staggered

dived (in) (or dove (in)), plunged (in)

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