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stumbling
adjective as in awkward
Strongest matches
adjective as in clumsy
Weak matches
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- splay
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
adjective as in halting
adjective as in klutzy
Weak matches
- all thumbs
- amateurish
- artless
- blundering
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingers
- clumsy
- coarse
- floundering
- gawky
- graceless
- green
- having two left feet
- having two left hands
- incompetent
- inept
- inexpert
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- rude
- stiff
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- unfit
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unhandy
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unskilled
- unskillful
adjective as in maladroit
adjective as in oafish
adjective as in uncoordinated
noun as in hesitation
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in indecisiveness
Strong matches
noun as in irresoluteness
Strong matches
noun as in irresolution
Strong matches
noun as in tentativeness
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stuttering
- timidity
- timidness
- to and fro
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
noun as in timidness
Strong matches
noun as in to and fro
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stuttering
- tentativeness
- timidity
- timidness
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
Example Sentences
McIlroy, who has previously suggested that America’s DOJ is the big stumbling block to ratification of the deal between the PIF and the PGA and DP World Tours, is hopeful that Trump and his election ally Musk can break the current deadlock.
His stumbling through his remarks about Trump’s supporters are just the latest example of words getting the better of him — despite his swift clarification.
Dr Bloomer, who has been involved in academic research on foetal abnormalities, said the main stumbling block is funding earlier screening.
We had first encountered the new influx of Vietnamese migrants earlier this year, stumbling on one of their camps near Dunkirk.
But this may be the first season in which politics joins that list of possible stumbling blocks, even if they don’t say so.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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