Definition for Stumbling:

• Act of one who stumbles.

Synonyms for Stumbling:

• adj.

  •awkward (adjective)
  • ungraceful,
  • rude,
  • unskilled,
  • coarse,
  • bumbling,
  • bungling,
  • uncouth,
  • unpolished,
  • butterfingers,
  • amateurish,
  • artless,
  • ungainly,
  • green*,
  • inept,
  • Floundering,
  • unskillful,
  • incompetent,
  • oafish,
  • Blundering,
  • graceless,
  • inexpert,
  • bulky,
  • unrefined,
  • lumbering,
  • gawky,
  • unfit,
  • stiff.
  •clumsy (adjective)
  • crude,
  • heavy,
  • untactful,
  • hulking,
  • untoward,
  • weedy,
  • elephantine,
  • heavy-handed,
  • inelegant,
  • unwieldy,
  • unable,
  • inexperienced,
  • gauche.
  •halting (adjective)
  • imperfect,
  • wooden,
  • slow,
  • limping,
  • indecisive,
  • doubtful,
  • stammering,
  • tentative,
  • vacillating,
  • stuttering,
  • irresolute,
  • labored,
  • uncertain,
  • wavering.
  •maladroit (adjective)
  • clunky,
  • two left feet.
  •oafish (adjective)
  • half-witted,
  • idiotic,
  • moronic,
  • dumb,
  • simpleminded,
  • unintelligent,
  • halfwitted,
  • simple,
  • ignorant.
  •uncoordinated (adjective)
  • like a bull in a china shop,
  • not agile.

• adv.

  •roughly (adverb)
  • unevenly.

• n.

  •hesitation (noun)
  • fluctuation,
  • doubt,
  • dawdling,
  • indisposition,
  • indecision,
  • Averseness,
  • reluctance,
  • skepticism,
  • dubiety,
  • misgiving,
  • pause,
  • delay,
  • oscillation,
  • vacillation,
  • mistrust,
  • qualm,
  • equivocation,
  • Delaying,
  • hesitancy,
  • unwillingness.
  •indecisiveness (noun)
  • timidity,
  • Shilly-shally.
  •lurching (noun)
  • lurching.
  •staggering (noun)
  • staggering.

• v.

  •erring (verb)
  • slipping,
  • slipping up,
  • Misconstruing,
  • Misconceiving,
  • tripping,
  • erring,
  • fluffing,
  • goofing,
  • misestimating,
  • fouling up,
  • Botching,
  • Marring,
  • miscalculating,
  • misjudging.
  •failing (verb)
  • faltering,
  • Collapsing,
  • Flopping,
  • busting,
  • failing,
  • losing,
  • falling,
  • Flunking.
  •stumble (verb)
  • fall upon,
  • find,
  • blunder,
  • come up against,
  • luck*,
  • chance,
  • bumble,
  • falter,
  • limp,
  • tumble,
  • pitch,
  • wallow,
  • turn up,
  • light,
  • fall down,
  • bump,
  • swing,
  • shuffle,
  • run across,
  • waver,
  • err,
  • careen,
  • lose balance,
  • lumber,
  • wobble,
  • topple,
  • HIT,
  • lurch,
  • tilt,
  • trip,
  • come across,
  • chance upon,
  • blunder upon,
  • meet,
  • muddle,
  • reel,
  • stub toe on,
  • discover,
  • fall,
  • flounder,
  • hesitate,
  • light upon,
  • stammer,
  • encounter.
  •stumbling (verb)
  • tottering,
  • Hobbling.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • uncertainly,
  • obstacle,
  • walking unsteadily,
  • Dispatching,
  • interruption,
  • barrier,
  • Boggling,
  • hesitant,
  • Stumbled,
  • clumsily,
  • Tallying,
  • debility,
  • feebleness,
  • Murdering,
  • infirmity,
  • defect,
  • haltingly,
  • stumping,
  • cessation,
  • weaving,
  • Removing,
  • hindrance,
  • hesitating,
  • stumble,
  • foundering,
  • stupefyingly,
  • Teetering,
  • totter,
  • activating,
  • Lunging,
  • astoundingly,
  • Reeling,
  • staggeringly,
  • cul de sac,
  • bitching,
  • mishandling,
  • Gaining,
  • falteringly,
  • fall over,
  • Impedimental,
  • bobbling,
  • perplexing,
  • Attaining,
  • difficulty,
  • dancing,
  • Chancing,
  • bankruptcy,
  • tentatively,
  • setback,
  • uneven,
  • wobbling,
  • hitch,
  • shifting,
  • stupefying,
  • failure,
  • hesitantly,
  • unsteady,
  • bar,
  • piping,
  • Faulting,
  • pitching,
  • sparking,
  • deficiency,
  • suspension,
  • faulty,
  • fragility,
  • Swagging,
  • astonishing,
  • astounding,
  • travelling,
  • traveling,
  • Muffing,
  • weakness,
  • awkwardly,
  • lapsing,
  • triggering,
  • missing,
  • Jaunting,
  • Plunging,
  • stumbles,
  • Stumblingly,
  • happening,
  • fault,
  • reaching,
  • shambling,
  • to and fro,
  • actuating,
  • doddering,
  • scoring,
  • impediment,
  • disturbance,
  • breakdown,
  • fix,
  • stoppage,
  • sinning,
  • tumbling,
  • obstruction,
  • imperfection,
  • astonishingly,
  • maladroitly.

Paraphrases for Stumbling:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    ailing, obstacle, struggling, non-performing, sluggish, staggering, strained.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Defaulting, facing, dying, tripping, Hampering, hindering, ailing, struggling.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    embattled, deadlocked, Stalled, troubled.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    faltering.

Stumbling Sentence Examples:

• In spite of the stones we managed a sort of stumbling gallop.

• He went stumbling toward it in the snow.