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Staggering vs Enormous - What's the difference?

staggering | enormous |

As adjectives the difference between staggering and enormous

is that staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing while enormous is (obsolete)  deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.

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

    enormous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete)  Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
  • *, New York 2001, p.105:
    • all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind.
  • (obsolete)  Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
  • *, II.12:
    • how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous .
  • Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

    Synonyms

    * massive * huge * gigantic * humongous * See also

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