What was she doing when she made that blunder?
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Blunder
//ˈblʌn.dɚ//
Synonyms for "blunder" (153 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (46)
Related words (76)
imprudenceindiscretionlaborlapselouse uplumberlurchmake a blundermake a misstepmarmessmisadventuremiscuemissmiss the markmisspeakmisstatementmisstepmistakemuck
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Verb(1 words)
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4 entriesderived
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12 entriesTranslations
151 translations across 30 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- груба грешка noun (mistake)
- пропуск noun (mistake)
- вървя слепешката verb (To move blindly or clumsily)
- правя груби грешки verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Catalan
3 entries- ficada de pota noun (mistake)
- relliscada noun (mistake)
- anar cegament verb (To move blindly or clumsily)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 錯誤 /错误 noun (mistake)
Dutch
4 entries- blunder noun (mistake)
- blunderen verb (To make a stupid mistake)
- een bok schieten verb (To make a stupid mistake)
- een flater slaan verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Esperanto
1 entries- fuŝi verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Finnish
4 entries- haksahdus noun (mistake)
- kommellus noun (mistake)
- kömmähdys noun (mistake)
- munaus noun (mistake)
French
4 entries- bourde noun (mistake)
- faux pas noun (mistake)
- gaffe noun (mistake)
- impair noun (mistake)
German
4 entries- Fauxpas noun (mistake)
- Fehler noun (mistake)
- Fehlgriff noun (mistake)
- Fehlleistung noun (mistake)
Greek
4 entries- γκάφα f σφάλμα noun (mistake)
- λάθος noun (mistake)
- παραδρομή noun (mistake)
- σφάλλω verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Hebrew
1 entries- פַּאֲשְׁלָה noun (mistake)
Hungarian
3 entries- baklövés noun (mistake)
- szarvashiba noun (mistake)
- bakot lő verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Italian
4 entries- abbaglio noun (mistake)
- cantonata noun (mistake)
- sfondone noun (mistake)
- strafalcione noun (mistake)
Japanese
2 entries- へま noun (mistake)
- ポカ noun (mistake)
Latin
1 entries- eo caece verb (To move blindly or clumsily)
Macedonian
4 entries- гаф noun (mistake)
- кикс noun (mistake)
- ла́псус noun (mistake)
- про́пуст noun (mistake)
Marathi
2 entries- घोडचूक noun (mistake)
- घोडचूक करणे verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Māori
4 entries- hēnga noun (mistake)
- paheketanga noun (mistake)
- pōkaku noun (mistake)
- pakihawa verb (To move blindly or clumsily)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- blunder noun (mistake)
- bommert noun (mistake)
- bukk noun (mistake)
- tabbe noun (mistake)
Old Norse
1 entries- fingrbrjótr noun (big mistake in chess)
Polish
1 entries- gafa noun (mistake)
Portuguese
4 entries- confusão noun (mistake)
- erro noun (mistake)
- gafe noun (mistake)
- mico noun (mistake)
Russian
4 entries- грубая ошибка noun (mistake)
- зево́к noun (mistake)
- ля́псус noun (mistake)
- ляп noun (mistake)
Sanskrit
1 entries- स्रेधति verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kiks noun (mistake)
- кикс noun (mistake)
Spanish
4 entries- cagada noun (mistake)
- condoro noun (mistake)
- desatino noun (mistake)
- descache noun (mistake)
Swedish
4 entries- blunder noun (mistake)
- tabbe noun (mistake)
- tavla noun (mistake)
- drumla verb (To move blindly or clumsily)
Thai
3 entries- พลาดท่า verb (To make a stupid mistake)
- เพลี่ยงพล่ำ verb (To make a stupid mistake)
- เสียที verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Turkish
1 entries- hata noun (mistake)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nước sai lầm ngớ ngẩn (in Chess.com) noun (big mistake in chess)
Volapük
1 entries- pökön verb (To make a stupid mistake)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
He was guilty of a blunder.
Source: tatoeba (292671)
As a result of his carelessness, he made a serious blunder.
Source: tatoeba (303241)
She's guilty of a grave blunder.
Source: tatoeba (314938)
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