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Staggering vs Doddery - What's the difference?

staggering | doddery |

As adjectives the difference between staggering and doddery

is that staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing while doddery is doddering, trembly, shaky.

As a verb staggering

is .

As a noun staggering

is the motion of one who staggers.

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

    doddery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Doddering, trembly, shaky.
  • * 1994 , Laurie R King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
    • That is not to say that he became a doddery old man — far from it. He was just a bit thoughtful at times, and I would catch him looking at me pensively...
  • * 1999 , Terence Rattigan, Benoît Delhomme, David Mamet, The Winslow Boy
    • The old boy's so doddery now he can hardly finish the course at all. I timed him today. It took him seventy-five seconds...