Meaning & Definition of Shifting in English

1. The act of moving from one place to another

• "His constant shifting disrupted the class"

1. Continuously varying

• "Taffeta with shifting colors"

2. Changing position or direction

• "He drifted into the shifting crowd"

• "Their nervous shifting glances"

• "Shifty winds"

3. (of soil) unstable

• "Shifting sands"

• "Unfirm earth"