blunder
- a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- to move or act blindly, stupidly, or without direction or steady guidance: Without my glasses I blundered into the wrong room.
- to make a gross or stupid mistake, especially through carelessness or mental confusion: Just pray that he doesn't blunder again and get the names wrong.
- to bungle; botch: Several of the accounts were blundered by that new assistant.
- to utter thoughtlessly; blurt out: He blundered his surprise at their winning the award.
Origin of blunder
Synonyms for blunder
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bumble, bungle, err, flounder, blow, botch, flub, confuse, misjudge, fumble, stumble, bobbleExamples from the Web for blundering
Contemporary Examples of blundering
This initiative highlights activists from Cuba to China, who use satire to poke fun at their blundering and oppressive regimes.
He and several other blundering referees were cut by FIFA when it announced its list of officials for the remaining three rounds.
It defies plausibility to suggest that president after president after president is blundering or inept.
Historical Examples of blundering
But if I was a blundering amateur in all this, they were not so much discourteous as envious.
City of Endless NightMilo Hastings
It will be strange if I cannot find roads which shall baffle these blundering soldiers.'
Micah ClarkeArthur Conan Doyle
All night he ran, blundering in the darkness into mishaps and obstacles that delayed but did not daunt.
White FangJack London
"My blundering vision could not see how the strands were being woven," he added.
Cleo The MagnificentLouis Zangwill
Suddenly the idea that he was blundering again exasperated him.
His MasterpieceEmile Zola
blunder
- a stupid or clumsy mistake
- a foolish tactless remark
- to make stupid or clumsy mistakes
- to make foolish tactless remarks
- (often foll by about, into, etc) to act clumsily; stumblehe blundered into a situation he knew nothing about
- (tr) to mismanage; botch
Word Origin for blunder
Word Origin and History for blundering
mid-14c. as a present participle adjective; mid-15c. as a verbal noun, from blunder (v.). Related: Blunderingly.
blunder
mid-14c., "to stumble about blindly," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blundra "shut one's eyes," from PIE root *bhlendh- (see blind). Meaning "make a stupid mistake" is first recorded 1711. Related: Blundered; blundering.
blunder
mid-14c., apparently from blunder (v.), though of about the same age.