Stumbling Synonyms and Antonyms

To make an error or mistake
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slipping
  2. mistaking
  3. miscuing
  4. erring
Encounter by chance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tripping
  2. toppling
  3. staggering
  4. floundering
  5. wallowing
  6. hitting
  7. shuffling
  8. stammering
  9. muddling
  10. spilling
  11. slipping
  12. limping
  13. lurching
  14. bumbling
  15. hesitating
  16. fumbling
  17. happening
  18. tilting
  19. fudging
  20. faltering
  21. blundering
  22. falling
  23. erring
  24. encountering
  25. bungling
  26. discovering
  27. chancing
  28. botching
  29. pitching
Antonyms:
  1. losing
  2. overlooking
To move in a stumbling manner
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bumbling
  2. faltering
  3. lurching
  4. blundering
  5. floundering
To catch the foot against something and lose one's balance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tripping
To proceed unsteadily or falteringly; flounder.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blundering

Words Related to Stumbling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. correcting
  2. thriving
  3. wavering
  4. moving
  5. un-carved
  6. chokepoints

Stumbling Sentence Examples

  • She was stumbling through life in a fog.

  • By stumbling while walking on the line.

  • The first form darted through trees and brush, shoving branches out of his path and stumbling.

  • But to do so they had first to brush away a stone of stumbling which Kant had left in the way.

  • Morse was a fascinating subject to us all, tho it did prove a stumbling block to a few.

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