staggering

staggering

1. present participle of stagger

staggering (comparative more staggering, superlative most staggering)

1. Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.

   The army suffered a staggering defeat.

• staggeringly

staggering (plural staggerings)

1. 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 […]

2. 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 […]

3. In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort

An example of the animation technique "staggering" as seen in "The Dover Boys" (1942, dir. Chuck Jones)