Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstʌmblɪŋ/, /ˈstʌmbl̩ɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ʌmblɪŋ
- Hyphenation: stum‧bling
Noun
stumbling (plural stumblings)
- The motion of one who stumbles.
2008 March 16, Alexander Star, “I Feel Good”, in New York Times:Some evolutionary theorists stress that cultural innovation allows human beings to overcome the blind stumblings of natural selection: we deliberately solve a problem and pass on that solution to our descendants, who improve on it in turn.