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What is another word for
bumbling
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Adjective
Acting in a confused or ineffectual way
Verb
To move without the benefit of perfect vision
Present participle for to deal with something clumsily or nervously, typically making a mistake in the process
Present participle for to tinker or fiddle with something
Present participle for to move or act in an awkward or confused manner
Present participle for to move or vibrate with a buzzing or whirring sound
Present participle for to speak in a confused or indistinct way
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Adjective
▲
Acting in a confused or ineffectual way
incompetent
awkward
blundering
bungling
clumsy
inefficient
inept
lumbering
maladroit
amateurish
inexpert
unskilful
botched
clodhopping
crude
foolish
gauche
muddled
oafish
stumbling
unco
useless
butterfingered
cack-handed
graceless
ham-fisted
ham-handed
shambling
ungainly
unpolished
unskillful
unhandy
uncoordinated
gawky
heavy-handed
ungraceful
klutzy
all thumbs
inelegant
all fingers and thumbs
unskilled
ponderous
gawkish
inexperienced
handless
wooden
like a bull in a china shop
amateur
cloddish
unwieldy
unprofessional
gangling
unfit
nonprofessional
dilettante
floundering
jackleg
dilettantish
left-handed
lubberly
clownish
fumbled
shoddy
cumbersome
stiff
two left feet
uncouth
artless
undexterous
incapable
butterfingers
unable
bovine
unadept
untrained
green
clunky
flat-footed
substandard
slapdash
sloppy
slipshod
skill-less
coarse
unrefined
lumpish
rude
fumbling
ineffectual
heavy-footed
blunderous
unqualified
rough
labored
US
laboured
UK
unpractised
loutish
cowboy
hulking
inapt
unfitted
having two left feet
having two left hands
unsteady
careless
bodged
with two left feet
accident-prone
not agile
all thumbs
unsophisticated
botching
mutton-fisted
lumpy
unaccomplished
laborious
stolid
raw
unfacile
slouching
unfortunate
bush-league
insipid
fumbly
clunking
unproductive
unsuccessful
hack
stilted
unworkmanlike
hopeless
coltish
unpracticed
inadequate
rough-hewn
ill-bred
out of your depth
nonexpert
second-rate
heavy
faltering
claudicant
slow
halting
limping
uneven
hobbling
elephantine
untalented
bulky
rustic
uneasy
uncomfortable
indelicate
crass
rustical
boorish
tactless
vulgar
uncultured
unsubtle
churlish
untactful
uncultivated
injudicious
undiplomatic
impolitic
uncivil
gruff
tasteless
uneducated
ill-mannered
insensitive
shy
gross
stupid
indiscreet
uncivilized
US
lumpen
harsh
common
rash
socially awkward
discourteous
hick
primitive
philistine
lowbred
hasty
provincial
impolite
rough-and-tumble
thoughtless
uncivilised
UK
doltish
ill-judged
unworldly
bashful
dull
rudimentary
low
barbaric
imprudent
geeky
sheepish
brash
ungentlemanly
bearish
unpolitic
simple
nerdy
insensible
roughneck
lowbrow
raffish
rugged
incult
illiberal
unladylike
hillbilly
classless
unmannerly
barbarous
slow-moving
slobbish
yobbish
backwoods
inurbane
socially inept
loud
ignorant
rough and ready
Neanderthal
jerry-rigged
jerry-built
jury-rigged
rough-and-ready
bad-mannered
socially anxious
socially incompetent
socially lacking
self-conscious
ill at ease
shuffling
unnatural
lurching
ambilevous
lethargic
obtuse
guileless
naive
ingenuous
unconfident
uptight
discomposed
puddingy
parochial
agrestic
callow
plain
embarrassed
unwieldly
clumpy
nervous
unwise
sharp
inadvisable
blunt
splay
nervy
gangly
unsavoury
UK
unsavory
US
ungracious
socially unsure
brutish
thuggish
unthinking
unperceptive
lacking in social grace
lacking in social graces
callous
countrified
ocker
plebby
base
swinish
ornery
cantankerous
unpoised
straightforward
precipitate
out-of-line
ill-advised
inconsiderate
dorky
weak
wasteful
unsystematic
uneconomical
profligate
deficient
purposeless
uncomplicated
elementary
basic
plebeian
hooligan
undeveloped
unprocessed
makeshift
savage
ungenteel
indecorous
impertinent
ungallant
disrespectful
unseemly
disgracious
time-wasting
badly arranged
inartistic
roughly-made
offensive
barbarian
improper
imperfect
rudimental
roughly made
approximate
unprecise
roughhewn
unfinished
inexact
imprecise
unfashioned
raunchy
foul-mouthed
uncalled-for
loud-mouthed
more ❯
“In the harsh glare of the campaign spotlight a picture of a
bumbling
Palin emerged that scared more people than it inspired.”
Verb
▲
To move without the benefit of perfect vision
feeling
fumbling
scrabbling
picking
bungling
clawing
floundering
grappling
groping
stumbling
blundering
exploring
poking
fishing
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deal with something clumsily or nervously, typically making a mistake in the process
bungling
botching
flubbing
muffing
blowing
fumbling
fluffing
butchering
bobbling
mangling
boggling
foozling
dubbing
booting
murdering
jumbling
screwing up
messing up
fouling up
goofing up
lousing up
mucking up
bollixing up
spoiling
blundering
erring
ruining
making a mess of
mishandling
making a hash of
mismanaging
making a muck of
marring
bodging
stumbling
boobing
tripping
ballsing up
making a Horlicks of
miscalculating
slipping up
wrecking
bollixing
gumming up
making a pig's ear of
making a nonsense of
muddling
goofing
messing
floundering
dropping the ball
doing something badly
balling up
fudging
hashing
destroying
missing
mutilating
failing
damaging
misapplying
mending
distorting
miscomputing
making a botch of
tripping up
falling down
muddling up
confusing
making hash of
queering
lousing
snafuing
wasting
squandering
doing clumsily
mishitting
losing
miscarrying
choking
slipping
misconjecturing
misconstruing
patching
misjudging
making a dog's dinner of
pulling a boner
getting wrong
throwing away
delivering badly
making a mistake
botching up
misdirecting
misgoverning
misconducting
mixing up
snarling
maladministering
misruling
fouling
disordering
throwing
scuppering
managing badly
confounding
overlooking
stuffing up
disorganizing
dropping
upsetting
discomposing
disrupting
mussing
whiffing
muddying
mucking
complicating
cluttering
mistiming
misfielding
blowing it
getting it wrong
throwing into disorder
misusing
bollocksing up
bolloxing
bolixing
bolloxing up
bolixing up
putting a spanner in the works
making a hash
perverting
prostituting
misemploying
faltering
tumbling
horking
borking
jacking up
losing the handle
handling awkwardly
failing to catch
making a blunder
miscuing
making a boner
miscueing
going wrong
mistaking
dropping a clanger
making mistake
putting your foot in it
making a boo-boo
dropping a brick
disarranging
scrambling
disarraying
disturbing
discombobulating
shuffling
rumpling
tousling
falling flat on face with
erring on
tangling
disjointing
misarranging
disheveling
dislocating
dishevelling
mixing
psyching out
stirring up
ravelling
UK
raveling
US
entangling
perturbing
jumbling up
throwing off
getting into a tangle
ruffling
perplexing
making a pig's ear
making a dog's breakfast
hashing up
making a mess
snarling up
more ❯
“The police
bumble
the investigation from the start and, as days go by, the talk show halfwits add to the hysteria.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tinker or fiddle with something
tinkering
meddling
playing
fiddling
toying
dabbling
monkeying
pottering
messing about
mucking about
trifling
messing
touching
feeling
handling
fooling
fingering
pawing
thumbing
doodling
twiddling
fussing
fooling around
messing around
messing with
fooling about
playing with
picking at
playing around
tampering
interfering
fidgeting
fidgetting
fiddling with
toying with
monkeying around
monkeying with
adjusting
experimenting
frivoling
frivolling
flirting
puttering
puddling
trifling with
playing about
dallying with
mucking around
pottering about with
fooling with
playing games with
amusing oneself
monkeying about
jiggling
twirling
wiggling
moving
twisting
swiveling
US
swivelling
UK
turning
juggling
flirting with
pottering about
amusing oneself with
working superficially
tinkering with
pottering around with
playing at
pottering round with
fidgetting with
winking at
adjusting slightly
niggling
tampering with
trying to improve
fixing
playing about with
repairing
mending
meddling with
playing around with
dabbling with
trying to mend
interfering with
working amateurishly on
fooling around with
fooling about with
rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic
mucking about with
messing around with
tinkering with the edges of
messing about with
putting right
tinkering at the edges of
taking apart
mucking around with
“Watching him
bumble
around with the tea, Lynne was keenly aware of the crease he'd once made in her heart, even if it didn't quite fold along that line anymore.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or act in an awkward or confused manner
stumbling
lumbering
plodding
floundering
trudging
blundering
staggering
shambling
shuffling
struggling
limping
tottering
flogging
reeling
lurching
teetering
wobbling
weaving
swaying
faltering
muddling
pitching
clumping
slogging
scuffing
tramping
stumping
stomping
stamping
galumphing
sloughing
scuffling
tromping
barging
lumping
hobbling
pounding
waddling
doddering
walking heavily
clomping
dragging oneself
careening
wallowing
moving clumsily
traipsing
thumping
fumbling
footslogging
hiking
toiling
thudding
trogging
grinding
treading
banging
schlepping
bobbling
walking
trundling
walking clumsily
moving awkwardly
trampling
dragging
clunking
wavering
clattering
blundering about
plodding along
groping
drudging
tripping
falling
losing your balance
hirpling
gimping
laboring
US
labouring
UK
battling
hopping
scrambling
rolling
slipping
walking with a limp
clambering
battling one's way
sputtering
grinding away
fighting your way
walking with difficulty
walking haltingly
walking lamely
walking unevenly
making one's way with difficulty
shinnying
yawing
sliding
jerking
tilting
ducking
leaning
swinging
dodging
heaving
moving to the side
trekking
trailing
marching
yomping
wading
ploughing
UK
stepping
plowing
US
walking slowly
plugging along
wandering
rambling
sauntering
ambling
strolling
roaming
roving
moseying
drifting
meandering
straggling
padding
prowling
legging it
dawdling
striding
thundering
peregrinating
ranging
ambulating
hoofing it
slouching
moving
going walkabout
going
trooping
moving laboriously
mooching
maundering
pushing one's way
gallivanting
pacing
jaunting
coasting
galavanting
tootling
knocking about
bimbling
floating
perambulating
advancing
proceeding
crawling
treading heavily
footing
hoofing
loitering
going on foot
footing it
cruising
pottering
stravaiging
moving slowly
batting
gadding
circumnutating
circumambulating
hopscotching
dragging your feet
kicking around
milling around
gadding about
globe-trotting
milling round
milling about
following one's nose
mooching around
knocking around
walking the tracks
promenading
pressing
creeping
moping
traversing
prancing
toddling
strutting
lingering
straying
pootling
dallying
hitting the road
wending your way
stretching your legs
dragging along
shilly-shallying
vagabonding
circumlocuting
getting no place fast
going slowly
clopping
clonking
galloping
crushing
champing
pattering
chugging
fighting
sweating
running heavily
pushing
lolling
loafing
jogging
skulking
divagating
moving with difficulty
treading clumsily
shifting
changing
puttering
pushing yourself
going off at a tangent
getting sidetracked
wandering aimlessly
getting off the point
moving aimlessly
swanning
mincing
moving at a snail's pace
loitering along
skipping
ascending
descending
tiptoeing
pottering about
pottering around
pottering round
pressing on
going by foot
moving forward
going down
going up
traveling on foot
travelling on foot
going forward
journeying
travelling
UK
traveling
US
patrolling
voyaging
progressing
stepping out
migrating
transitioning
passing
cantering
touring
parading
filing
racing
locomoting
stalking
departing
venturing
wayfaring
globetrotting
taking a turn
plodding on
making your way
taking the air
setting out
delaying
tarrying
pushing on
setting forth
dillydallying
diddling
taking a trip
poking
lollygagging
lallygagging
dithering
idling
inching
staying
tailing
lagging
dropping
slowing up
dragging behind
inching along
dilly-dallying
bringing up the rear
lagging behind
falling behind
dropping behind
trailing behind
falling off
hanging back
falling back
putting off
slowing down
more ❯
“We
bumble
around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or vibrate with a buzzing or whirring sound
humming
whirring
buzzing
droning
whizzing
zipping
burring
zooming
whishing
fizzing
fuzzing
hissing
singing
murmuring
whispering
purring
whining
vibrating
bombinating
sounding
thrumming
strumming
susurrating
bombilating
warbling
fizzling
rumbling
drawling
sighing
reverberating
sibilating
zizzing
swishing
flying
sizzling
moving
revolving
throbbing
crooning
mumbling
moaning
rustling
trilling
crackling
sputtering
spitting
whistling
cracking
wheezing
shrilling
frizzling
rasping
crepitating
ringing
sissing
plashing
gurgling
tinkling
purling
bubbling
chirruping
twittering
burbling
rippling
splashing
more ❯
“Although she didn't care for ordinary bees, watching a fat black and yellow bee
bumble
past always lifted her mood.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to speak in a confused or indistinct way
babbling
prattling
chattering
jabbering
gabbling
driveling
US
drivelling
UK
chatting
gibbering
rambling
blathering
burbling
drooling
prating
sputtering
waffling
mumbling
muttering
murmuring
stuttering
rabbiting on
gabbing
gassing
blethering
twittering
twaddling
maundering
blabbering
wittering on
talking nonsense
talking rubbish
nattering
jawing
blabbing
pattering
yakking
cackling
wittering
yattering
yapping
clacking
rabbiting
rabbitting
yabbering
chuntering
twattling
yammering
slabbering
ranting
blithering
earbashing
flannelling
flanneling
bleating
blubbering
raving
blurting
running on
going on
yackety-yakking
rattling on
talking incoherently
running off at the mouth
talking foolishly
talking gibberish
spilling the beans
talking
conversing
palavering
rattling
gossipping
gossiping
chaffering
rapping
schmoozing
shmoozing
kibitzing
visiting
chinning
kibbitzing
chewing the fat
shooting the breeze
chitchatting
chinwagging
confabulating
communicating
clavering
tittle-tattling
engaging in conversation
having a chinwag
having a conversation
talking nineteen to the dozen
powwowing
speaking
shooting the bull
going on and on
talking the hind legs off a donkey
shooting one's mouth off
piffling
uttering
yacking
tonguing
clattering
dialoguing
dialoging
having a confab
chewing the rag
verbalizing
US
fluffing
whiffling
bragging
boasting
verbalising
UK
talking at length
talking a lot
chit-chatting
slabbering on
talking incessantly
blowing smoke
talking a blue streak
making small talk
humming and hawing
gushing
tattling
spouting
blahing
buzzing
talking a mile a minute
talking ten to the dozen
more ❯
“Mary listened to me
bumble
on about how some biographers stop being explorers and start believing they own the country they've been wandering.”
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