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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

amazing, ambling, ambulation, astonishing, astounding, backpacking, breathtaking, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, cautious, choppy, circumspect, claudicant, confounding, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, easy, eccentric, electrifying, erratic, eye-opening, faltering, fitful, flagging, flickering, fluctuating, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, gentle, going on foot, gradual, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, immethodical, inconstant, indolent, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jarring, jerky, jolting, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, lurching, marching, mind-boggling, miraculous, moderate, nonuniform, overwhelming, patchy, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, rambling, relaxed, reluctant, rough, sauntering, scrappy, shocking, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spectacular, sporadic, spotty, startling, strange, strolling, stunning, surprising, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unhurried, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, variable, veering, waddling, walking, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly, wonderful, wondrous

Dictionary Results for staggering:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

staggering
    adj 1: so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such
           an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding
           achievement"; "the amount of money required was
           staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure
           inside the boucle dress was stupefying" [syn:
           astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefying]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stagger \Stag"ger\ (-g[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Staggered
   (-g[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Staggering.] [OE. stakeren,
   Icel. stakra to push, to stagger, fr. staka to punt, push,
   stagger; cf. OD. staggeren to stagger. Cf. Stake, n.]
   1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in
      standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness;
      to sway; to reel or totter.
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            Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
      "The enemy staggers." --Addison.
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   3. To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less
      confident or determined; to hesitate.
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            He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God
            through unbelief.                     --Rom. iv. 20.
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