Definition for Stutter:

• To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

Synonyms for Stutter:

• n.

  •
  • lurch,
  • dance,
  • jump,
  • come at,
  • words,
  • jerk,
  • flicker,
  • twitch,
  • jolt,
  • spring,
  • lunge.
  •bumble (noun)
  • bumble.
  •stammer (noun)
  • impediment,
  • stammer.
  •stammering (noun)
  • hesitation,
  • stoppage,
  • sputtering,
  • halting,
  • wobble,
  • sputterings,
  • faltering,
  • repetition.

• v.

  •hesitate (verb)
  • hedge,
  • hang back,
  • scruple,
  • shrink,
  • hold back,
  • shy away,
  • flounder,
  • be reluctant,
  • delay,
  • stop,
  • oscillate,
  • balk,
  • dither,
  • equivocate,
  • balance,
  • dally,
  • hem and haw,
  • tergiversate,
  • seesaw,
  • ponder,
  • waffle,
  • hold off,
  • pull back,
  • shift,
  • stutter,
  • straddle,
  • pause,
  • swerve,
  • be unwilling,
  • be irresolute,
  • think twice,
  • sit on fence,
  • pussyfoot,
  • think about,
  • dillydally,
  • weigh,
  • defer,
  • alternate,
  • demur,
  • linger,
  • fluctuate,
  • vacillate,
  • fumble,
  • doubt,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • debate,
  • waver,
  • hover.
  •slur (verb)
  • miss,
  • garble,
  • skip.
  •sough (verb)
  • sigh.
  •stammer (verb)
  • mutter,
  • splutter.
  •stumble (verb)
  • sputter.
  •stutter (verb)
  • dribble,
  • stumble.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • velar,
  • diction,
  • elide,
  • nasalize,
  • stammering,
  • pronunciation,
  • stammer out,
  • speech impediment,
  • stuttering,
  • upspeak,
  • palatalize,
  • uptalk,
  • intone,
  • syllabic,
  • mispronounce.
  •
  • articulate,
  • mouth.
  •
  • fall.
  •
  • drop.
  •
  • sound.
  •falter
  • falter.
  •hesitate
  • thought about,
  • Hesitated,
  • pulls back,
  • thinking about,
  • thinking twice,
  • thinks about,
  • dithering,
  • Floundered,
  • pulled back,
  • Stammered,
  • dithered,
  • pulling back.
  •slur
  • Mispronouncing,
  • Mispronounced,
  • Slurring.

Antonyms for Stutter:

• v.

  • hesitate
    attack, persevere, go, carry on, go ahead, resolve.
  • mumble
    speak clearly.
  • slur
    enunciate, pronounce.
  • stutter
    continue.

Stutter Sentence Examples:

• As soon as he recovered some degree of self - possession, he could barely stutter out, -" When Jack got out of sight - I turned to get down - and there sat another one, on the other post - looking just like me!"

• Stutter, who was scarcely heard in the uproar which followed this sensational announcement, meekly replied that he had not heard a word about it, an answer which, for some reason or other, provoked almost as much laughter as the question.