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Appalling vs Staggering - What's the difference?

appalling | staggering |

As verbs the difference between appalling and staggering

is that appalling is while staggering is .

As adjectives the difference between appalling and staggering

is that appalling is horrifying and astonishing while staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing.

As a noun staggering is

the motion of one who staggers.

appalling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Horrifying and astonishing.
    • That was an appalling waste of money.

    Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with appealing.

    Synonyms

    * awful, grotesque, horrid, hideous, terrible

    Derived terms

    * appallingly

    staggering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
    • The army suffered a staggering defeat.

    Derived terms

    * staggeringly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of one who staggers.
  • * 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
    • There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
  • That which staggers something or somebody.
  • * (Ebenezer Erskine)
    • But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings , although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory