Staggering vs Titubant - What's the difference?
staggering | titubant |
The motion of one who staggers.
* 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
That which staggers something or somebody.
* (Ebenezer Erskine)
stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
* 1896 , , Macaire , act i, scene 2 (stage directions)
* 1928 , Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica? , volume 3, page 65
* 1948 , Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies? , page 253
As adjectives the difference between staggering and titubant
is that staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing while titubant is stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy.As a verb staggering
is .As a noun staggering
is the motion of one who staggers.staggering
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(head)Derived terms
* staggeringlyNoun
(en noun)- 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
- 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
titubant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- To these, by the door L. C., the'' CURATE ''and the'' NOTARY, ''arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant
- His walk had become titubant .
- her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant
