Synonyms for Lurching

Synonyms for "lurching" (80 found)

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Closest matches (16)

broken capricious careening catchy choppy dangling desultory deviative disconnected discontinuous eccentric erratic fitful

Noun(3 words)

capricious careen erratic

Strong matches (24)

flickering fluctuating guttering halting herky-jerky heteroclite immethodical inconstant intermittent intermitting irregular jerky nonuniform patchy pitching rambling reeling

Noun(6 words)

jerk jerky jolt jolting oscillate oscillating

Determiner(1 words)

most sudden motion-change

Related words (40)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

9 entries

change development direction locomotion motion movement operationphysical changetransition

More specific

16 entries

careeneconomic lurchfluctuationforward lurchjerk jerkiness jolt oscillate oscillationpolicy lurchpolitical lurchside lurchstagger tremor unsteadiness veer

Collocations

12 entries

forward lurchjerky lurchlurching carlurching changeslurching economylurching forwardlurching gaitlurching motionlurching policypolitical lurchside lurchsudden lurch

Inflections

4 entries

lurched lurchesmore lurchingmost lurching

Derivations

4 entries

lurch lurched lurcher lurchingly

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

His backache left him lurching along with leaden legs.

Source: tatoeba (328968)

You keep lurching on your feet. Are you drunk?

Source: tatoeba (8634292)

Ziri's dog was lurching towards Rima.

Source: tatoeba (10822652)

The occasional plungings and lurchings of this traveling van, over the ruts and small boulders of the Steenweg, are apt to remind one of a roughish journey by sea […]

Source: wiktionary

Lurching