Word.ws English Dictionary

rollercoastering

rollercoastering adjective: moving rapidly and unpredictably.

Adjective

rollercoastering (comparative more rollercoastering, superlative most rollercoastering)

  1. (figuratively) Moving rapidly and unpredictably.
    • Their own fortunes were so vast and so diversified that they were largely unaffected by the stock exchange's fickle rollercoastering activity.2006, Joseph Armstead, Nightflesh, page 18
    • This club was crammed full of men who'd lived through the afternoon's rollercoastering emotions.2011, Mark Fleming, Brainbomb, page 101

Forms of rollercoastering

comparativemore rollercoastering
superlativemost rollercoastering
alternative formrollercoasting

Origin of rollercoastering

From rollercoaster + -ing.

Questions about rollercoastering

What does rollercoastering mean?
Rollercoastering means moving rapidly and unpredictably.
What part of speech is rollercoastering?
Rollercoastering is an adjective.

Words near rollercoastering in the dictionary

  1. rollerbottle
  2. rollerbottles
  3. rollercoaster
  4. rollercoaster ride
  5. rollercoaster rides
  6. rollercoastering
  7. rollercoasterish
  8. rollercoasters
  9. rollercoasting
  10. rollercone bit
  11. rollercone bits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rollercoastering (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rollercoastering.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rollercoastering. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.