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Staggering vs Electrifying - What's the difference?

staggering | electrifying | Related terms |

Staggering is a related term of electrifying.


As verbs the difference between staggering and electrifying

is that staggering is while electrifying is .

As adjectives the difference between staggering and electrifying

is that staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing while electrifying is that electrifies.

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

    electrifying

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that electrifies
  • thrilling or startling
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2013 , date=June 18 , author= , title=Reception for Obama Is More Sober Than in 2008 , work= , url= http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/world/europe/reception-for-obama-is-more-sober-than-in-2008.html , page= , passage=The speech might have been electrifying close up, Mr. Conley said, but people near him drifted away before it finished.}}