Synonyms:
groping
Meaning: acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence; "a groping effort to understand"
Usage examples
Mrs. Arbuthnot, groping for guidance, prayed about it to exhaustion.
First he sought cautiously for his weapon, his fingers groping about over the ground at his right hand.
Then there had been an awful moment of groping through the blinding, choking smoke, trying to find a way out.
We looked into each other's eyes and we knew that the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly.
Many such questions every day make one aware of a vast mass of people, earnest, hungry for happiness, and groping as if in a fog.
Again the lean hand with long fingers appeared above the soil, and this was seen groping about the grass till it laid hold of the teapot.
He can take pains to see that his whole thought is expressed, instead of leaving vacancies which must be filled by the puzzled and groping reader.
Ultimately discovered the connection between the times and distances of the planets for which he had been groping all his mature life, and announced it in 1618:--
We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter.
In groping along the floor of the passage for this, I felt a hard substance, which I immediately grasped, not having time to ascertain what it was, but returning and ascending instantly to the surface.