stuttering
Meaning of stuttering
adjective
- spoken with or characterized by a stutter.
his slow stuttering speech
a stuttering voice
- progressing in a hesitant or irregular way.
her film career got off to a stuttering start
the stuttering economy
- the action or fact of speaking with a stutter.
there is little support for the claim that stuttering is associated with anxiety
- talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants.
the child was stuttering in fright
late 16th century (as a verb): frequentative of dialect stut, of Germanic origin; related to German stossen ‘strike against’.
Information about stuttering
- The plural form of stuttering is: stutterings.
- Languages in which stuttering is used:
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Hyphenation of stuttering
stut-ter-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- stuttering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
stuttering synonyms
Meaning speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words:
Meaning make a mistake or repeated mistakes in speaking:
Meaning speak hesitantly:
Meaning struggle or stagger clumsily in mud or water:
Meaning pause in indecision before saying or doing something:
Meaning interrupt action or speech briefly:
Meaning bring or come to an abrupt stop:
Meaning make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily:
Meaning make a series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds:
Words that rhyme with stuttering
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