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stumbly

stumbly adjective: prone to stumble.

Adjective

stumbly (comparative stumblier or more stumbly, superlative stumbliest or most stumbly)

  1. prone to stumble
    • I feel stumbly, and when I try to find the door for the stairwell I walk into the bathroom instead.1999 June 25, Howard L., “Confessions of a Lab Rat”, in Chicago Reader
    • And on tonight’s episode, when she faces a crisis — the reactions to her incoherent TV interviews last January — the carefully created sentences she uses to explain her slurry, stumbly self-presentation says it all.2007 July 5, Virginia Heffernan, “Hey, Adrift and Famous? Do a Celebreality Show!”, in New York Times

Forms of stumbly

comparativestumblier
comparativemore stumbly
superlativestumbliest
superlativemost stumbly

Origin of stumbly

From stumble + -y.

Questions about stumbly

What does stumbly mean?
Stumbly means prone to stumble.
What part of speech is stumbly?
Stumbly is an adjective.

Words near stumbly in the dictionary

  1. stumblingblocks
  2. stumblingly
  3. stumblings
  4. stumblingstone
  5. stumblingstones
  6. stumbly
  7. Stumbo
  8. Stumbos
  9. stumer
  10. stumers
  11. stummed

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