floundering 的定义
- to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements: He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- to struggle clumsily or helplessly: He floundered helplessly on the first day of his new job.
floundering 近义词
struggle; be in the dark
floundering 的近义词 34 个
- flop
- stumble
- wallow
- blunder
- bobble
- flummox
- fumble
- grope
- labor
- lurch
- muddle
- plunge
- pratfall
- snafu
- strive
- thrash
- toil
- toss
- travail
- tumble
- cast about
- come apart at the seams
- drop the ball
- fall down
- foul up
- go at backwards
- go to pieces
- make a mess of
- miss one's cue
- screw up
- slip up
- stub one's toe
- trip up
- work at
floundering 的反义词 4 个
更多floundering例句
- The search giant is keenly interested in growing its cloud computing division alongside its business collaboration tools, yet its many attempts at developing chat services—Allo, Duo, Hangouts—have floundered.
- In fact, the games industry has thrived at a time when other entertainment mediums have floundered.
- Arcadia, once a mighty business that dominated the British high street with brands such as Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, and Dorothy Perkins, has been similarly floundering.
- In Coach Zac Taylor’s second season, the team is floundering at 2-7-1 and now is without its franchise quarterback for the foreseeable future.
- Moreover, the show never fully decides whether Rory is floundering professionally because the economy is bad, because she is a bad journalist, or because she isn’t emotionally strong enough to handle the hustle.
- His November 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner speech in Iowa jump-started a floundering campaign.
- There between the third and fourth version of “Sheep in Fog” is the shift that sets Plath floundering and signals her desperation.
- In this case, Santorum received a major assist from Ron Paul, who left Romney floundering in an embarrassingly weak third.
- In 2011, with the economy floundering and even bad jobs in short supply, advice like this might ring a bit idealistic.
- When she graduated from Mount Holyoke College, leaving behind an undistinguished record, she was floundering.
- So had he stopped there it would have been wonderfully well; but he had to go floundering innocently on.
- He loosed the blankets from his shoulders, and floundering down the slope was lost in the vapor.
- Dawn found him at last, floundering hopelessly in snow-screened woods, going on toward he knew not where.
- After two or three more steps, the bottom fell away and, floundering savagely, he sank to his shoulders.
- My fears of burglars or stray cattle were dispelled by the voices of lost and floundering men calling to each other.