Definition for Stumbling:

• Act of one who stumbles.

Synonyms for Stumbling:

• adj.

  •awkward (adjective)
  • gawky,
  • unpolished,
  • Blundering,
  • amateurish,
  • inexpert,
  • ungraceful,
  • lumbering,
  • unskilled,
  • Floundering,
  • unskillful,
  • inept,
  • uncouth,
  • oafish,
  • graceless,
  • coarse,
  • artless,
  • bungling,
  • unfit,
  • butterfingers,
  • ungainly,
  • rude,
  • incompetent,
  • bulky,
  • unrefined,
  • bumbling,
  • 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.
  •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.
  •staggering (noun)
  • staggering.
  •stumbling (noun)
  • unsteady,
  • lurching,
  • weaving.

• 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,
  • HIT,
  • stub toe on,
  • chance,
  • bumble,
  • falter,
  • limp,
  • trip,
  • pitch,
  • turn up,
  • tumble,
  • light,
  • fall down,
  • bump,
  • swing,
  • shuffle,
  • run across,
  • wallow,
  • err,
  • careen,
  • blunder upon,
  • lumber,
  • waver,
  • topple,
  • wobble,
  • lurch,
  • tilt,
  • totter,
  • come across,
  • chance upon,
  • come up against,
  • meet,
  • muddle,
  • reel,
  • lose balance,
  • discover,
  • fall,
  • flounder,
  • hesitate,
  • light upon,
  • stammer,
  • encounter.
  •stumbling (verb)
  • tottering,
  • Hobbling.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • green,
  • ham-handed,
  • helpless,
  • lumpish,
  • ponderous,
  • stumbling,
  • uneasy,
  • Vacillatory,
  • awkward,
  • butterfingered,
  • clownish,
  • clumsy,
  • halting,
  • lubberly,
  • maladroit,
  • splay,
  • uncoordinated,
  • Claudicant,
  • Unhandy,
  • untalented,
  • klutzy,
  • gawkish,
  • all thumbs,
  • blunderous,
  • having two left feet,
  • having two left hands,
  • ill-shaped,
  • undexterous,
  • unadept.
  •n.
  • demurral,
  • fumbling,
  • hesitation,
  • indecisiveness,
  • irresoluteness,
  • irresolution,
  • procrastination,
  • scruple,
  • shillyshally,
  • timidness,
  • tentativeness,
  • fumblings,
  • hemming and hawing,
  • procrastinations,
  • stumblings,
  • waverings,
  • to-and-fro.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Intervened,
  • move clumsily.

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.