Saunter vs Stumble - What's the difference?

saunter | stumble |

As verbs the difference between saunter and stumble

is that saunter is to stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace while stumble is to trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

As nouns the difference between saunter and stumble

is that saunter is a leisurely walk or stroll while stumble is a fall, trip or substantial misstep.

saunter

English

Verb

(en verb)

To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace

* Masson

One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.

Synonyms

* amble * stroll * wander

Noun

(en noun)

A leisurely walk or stroll.

* 1814 , Elizabeth Hervey, Amabel: Volume 1 (page 53)

Caroline

A leisurely pace.

(obsolete) A place for sauntering or strolling.

* Young

That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.

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stumble

English

Noun

(en noun)

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

An error or blunder.

A clumsy walk.

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Synonyms

* (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See also

Verb

(stumbl)

To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

* Sir Walter Scott

He stumbled up the dark avenue.

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To make a mistake or have trouble.

To cause to stumble or trip.

(figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

* Milton

False and dazzling fires to stumble men.

* John Locke

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* Dryden

Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.

* C. Smart

Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.

Derived terms

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