Word Meanings - FUMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm 1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding. 2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly;

Additional info about word: FUMBLE

famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm 1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding. 2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. Dryden. My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth. 3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUMBLE)

• Grope
• Feel
• search
• grabble
• fumble

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FUMBLE)

• Pretermit
• disregard
• abandon
• misinvestigate

Related words: (words related to FUMBLE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• GROPER
  One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• FUMBLE
  famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm 1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding. 2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly;
• GRABBLE
  Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
• FUMBLER
  One who fumbles.
• PRETERMIT
  To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.
• SEARCHABLENESS
  Quality of being searchable.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• SEARCHABLE
  Capable of being searched.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• SEARCHLIGHT
  An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about. The beam of light projecting by this apparatus.
• ABANDONER
  One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.
• GROPE
  1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. 2. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not
• SEARCHING
  Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye. "Piercing, searching, biting, cold." Dickens. -- Search"ing*ly, adv. -- Search"ing*ness, n.
• DISREGARDFUL
  Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
• DISREGARDER
  One who disregards.
• SEARCH
  1. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city. "Search the Scriptures." John v. 39. They are come to search the house. Shak. Search me, O God, and know my heart. Ps. cxxxix. 23.
• ABANDONEE
  One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
• SEARCHER
  One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. Specifically: Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death. Graunt. An officer of the customs
• INSEARCH
  To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.
• RESEARCH
  Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborius or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom. The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
• AGROPE
  In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.
• RE-SEARCH
  To search again; to examine anew.
• RESEARCHER
  One who researches.
• ENSEARCH
  To make search; to try to find something. -- v. t.
• UNSEARCHABLE
  Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious. The counsels of God are to us unsearchable. Rogers. -- Un*search"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*search"a*bly, adv.