shambling

Questions about shambling

What does shambling mean?

shambling means "walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet".

How many syllables are in shambling?

shambling has 2 syllables and divides as sham-bling under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for shambling?

Close synonyms include shamble, shuffle, shuffling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shambling a common word?

shambling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.