Bumbling

Synonyms for "bumbling" (80 found)

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Closest matches (16)

all thumbsawkward blunderheaded blundering boorish bungling butterfingered

Noun(7 words)

awkward awkwardness blunder botch bungle bungler bungling

Adjective(2 words)

bungling butterfingered

Strong matches (24)

careless clownish clumsy clumsy-fisted cumbersomefingers all thumbsfumbling gauche gawkish gawky graceless halting ham-fisted ham-handed

Noun(7 words)

clown clumsiness clumsy faltering fumble fumbler gaffe

Adjective(3 words)

clumsier ham-fisted ham-handed

Related words (40)

Adjective(3 words)

handless heavy-handed left-handed

heavy handedheavy-handed hulking hulky inelegant ineptleft handedleft-hand left-handed loutish lubberly lumbering lumpish maladroit oafish ponderous poor rude sloppy stiff

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uncouth ungainly ungraceful unhandy unhappy unrefined unwieldy wooden

Noun(9 words)

inefficiency inept ineptitude misexecution mismanage misstep mistake stumble ungainly

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More general

14 entries

act action behavior conductdelivery styledescriptive adjectiveerror execute fault individual perform personpresentation stylequality descriptor

More specific

16 entries

blunder botch bunglerclumsy behaviorcoordination failurefumble fumblerfumbling speechgaffeinept performancemismanage misstepprocedural misstepspeech awkwardnessstumblestumbling presentation

Collocations

11 entries

bumbling administratorbumbling attemptbumbling attemptsbumbling bureaucracybumbling errorsbumbling managerbumbling mannerbumbling mistakesbumbling performancebumbling presentationbumbling through

Inflections

5 entries

bumbled bumbles bumblingsmore bumblingmost bumbling

Derivations

5 entries

bumble bumbleness bumbler bumbliness bumblingly

similar

1 entries

maladroit

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He slapped his forehead and called himself a bumbling fool after an hour of replaying a mental tape of his first date with the girl he loves.

Source: tatoeba (2765243)

Tom was known mainly for the bumbling characters he played in television films from the 70s and 80s.

Source: tatoeba (11205458)

The bumbling waiter spilled soup on a customer.

Source: tatoeba (12458809)

a bumbling fool

Source: wiktionary

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