rollercoastering

adjective

Moving rapidly and unpredictably.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectiverollercoastering (comparative more rollercoastering, superlative most rollercoastering)

comparative more rollercoastering · superlative most rollercoastering · alternative rollercoasting

  1. figurativelyMoving rapidly and unpredictably.

    This club was crammed full of men who'd lived through the afternoon's rollercoastering emotions.

    2011, Mark Fleming, Brainbomb, page 101
    1 more example

    Their own fortunes were so vast and so diversified that they were largely unaffected by the stock exchange's fickle rollercoastering activity.

    2006, Joseph Armstead, Nightflesh, page 18

Origin

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