Word Meanings - BLUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in

Additional info about word: BLUNDER

1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. To continue blundering. To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLUNDER)

• Abortion
• Failure
• miscarriage
• misadventure
• downfall
• mishap
• misproduction
• defect
• frustration
• blunder
• mess
• Boggle
• Halt
• hesitate
• dubitate
• falter
• blotch
• botch
• spoil
• mar
• Botch
• Patch
• cobble
• clump
• disconcert
• jumble
• bungle
• blacksmith
• Err
• Deviate
• wander
• mistake
• misjudge
• stumble
• stray
• go astray
• misapprehend
• Error
• Fault
• falsity
• deception
• fallacy
• untruth
• hallucination

Related words: (words related to BLUNDER)

• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• BOGGLE
  1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• JUMBLE
  1. A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words. 2. A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
• STRAY
  1. Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively. Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a stray. Dryden. 2. The act of wandering or going astray.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• BOGGLER
  One who boggles.
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• ASTRAY
  Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
• ABORTION
  Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. 4. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.