Spluttering

/ˈsplʌtəɹɪŋ/

Synonyms for "spluttering" (29 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (6)

beating dancing desultory drumming

Noun(2 words)

engine hiccupengine sputter

Strong matches (9)

Noun(5 words)

falter faltering misfire mumble murmur

flickering fluttering fluttery palpitant

Related words (14)

pounding spattering staccato throbbing thrumming thumping unsteady wavering

Noun(6 words)

sputter sputtering stall stammer stammering stuttering

Related word relations

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

5 relation types

More general

5 entries

communicationengine operationnoise sound speech

More specific

12 entries

engine misfireengine sputtergenerator misfiremisfiremouth spluttermumblespeech disfluencyspeech splutterstall stammerstarter problemverbal hesitation

Collocations

10 entries

mouth spluttermuffled splutteringrapid splutteringspluttering coughspluttering enginespluttering fitspluttering noisesspluttering soundspluttering speechspluttering voice

Inflections

5 entries

more splutteringmost splutteringspluttered splutterings splutters

Derivations

5 entries

splutter splutterer splutteringly spluttery sputter

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

After spluttering at first, the engine is now running smoothly.

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