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fumbling
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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 fail to execute a skill or maneuver
Present participle for to move clumsily in various directions using the hands to find one's way
Present participle for to search by groping or feeling for something concealed
Present participle for to physically struggle or flail around clumsily
Present participle for to cause disarray or disorganization in the order of
Noun
The characteristic of being tentative
Adjective
Not having or showing skill
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Verb
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To move without the benefit of perfect vision
feeling
scrabbling
bumbling
picking
bungling
clawing
floundering
grappling
groping
stumbling
blundering
exploring
poking
fishing
rooting
pawing
feeling blindly
rummaging
searching
digging
delving
grabbling
prying
feeling around
feeling about
touching
fingering
grubbing
scavenging
examining
manipulating
handling
casting about
rootling
scraping around
casting about for
casting around for
muddling around
scrabbling around
grabbling for
searching blindly
casting round for
more ❯
“I
fumble
for my wallet and set two ten-dollar bills on the counter.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deal with something clumsily or nervously, typically making a mistake in the process
bungling
botching
fluffing
flubbing
muffing
blundering
blowing
erring
butchering
bumbling
bobbling
mangling
boggling
foozling
spoiling
dubbing
murdering
booting
stumbling
mishandling
mismanaging
tripping
boobing
bodging
goofing
muddling
bollixing
screwing up
fouling up
messing up
goofing up
lousing up
mucking up
slipping up
making a mess of
bollixing up
making a mistake
making a hash of
making a muck of
botching up
making a nonsense of
muddling up
ruining
marring
ballsing up
miscalculating
wrecking
making a Horlicks of
getting wrong
misdirecting
dropping the ball
gumming up
misconducting
misgoverning
making a blunder
tripping up
confusing
making a boo-boo
balling up
getting it wrong
misjudging
floundering
going wrong
doing something badly
making a pig's ear of
jumbling
messing
failing
making an error
dropping a clanger
blowing it
hashing
mending
distorting
misapplying
miscomputing
mistaking
mutilating
maladministering
mixing up
stuffing up
damaging
misruling
snafuing
managing badly
fudging
making a bloomer
making a botch of
confounding
overlooking
falling down
destroying
missing
making a dog's dinner of
getting things wrong
boo-booing
nodding
putting your foot in it
dropping a brick
doing clumsily
queering
making hash of
lousing
misconjecturing
misconstruing
patching
making a howler
bollocksing up
bolloxing
bolixing
bolloxing up
bolixing up
misusing
faltering
pulling a boner
wasting
squandering
erroring
losing
miscarrying
mishitting
muffing something up
putting a spanner in the works
slipping
choking
making a slip
perverting
prostituting
misemploying
lapsing
throwing away
misapprehending
delivering badly
deviating
going astray
blotting your copybook
making a faux pas
snarling up
barking up the wrong tree
getting the wrong end of the stick
making a false move
making mistake
misunderstanding
misinterpreting
misreading
misestimating
underestimating
overestimating
undervaluing
underrating
overvaluing
overrating
misreckoning
miscounting
discounting
disregarding
getting signals crossed
missing by a mile
misgauging
misconceiving
mismeasuring
misdeeming
throwing
scuppering
fouling
putting your foot in your mouth
speaking out of turn
calculating wrongly
estimating wrongly
making a mistake about
toppling
getting the wrong idea
miscuing
making a boner
miscueing
snarling
misstepping
missteping
jacking up
stubbing toe
more ❯
“The principal started to stutter and
fumble
her words as she told the locksmith the storeroom had to have a different lock than the classroom.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fail to execute a skill or maneuver
dropping
failing
missing
whiffing
fluffing
mistiming
bungling
misfielding
mishandling
handling awkwardly
failing to catch
losing the handle
tripping up
slipping
mishitting
erring on
falling flat on face with
“Should he
fumble
the catch, the ball can be recovered by the opposition.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move clumsily in various directions using the hands to find one's way
stumbling
blundering
bumbling
floundering
lumbering
staggering
tottering
lurching
struggling
moving awkwardly
moving clumsily
plodding
trudging
reeling
limping
flogging
faltering
muddling
groping
falling
careening
tripping
bobbling
losing your balance
teetering
swaying
wobbling
shambling
doddering
slipping
shuffling
sliding
hobbling
weaving
rolling
waddling
tumbling
wallowing
toppling
skidding
slithering
gliding
dropping
falling over
fluffing
tripping over
losing your footing
wavering
pitching
toddling
blundering about
walking unsteadily
shimmying
seesawing
zigzagging
wheeling
hirpling
clumping
gimping
scuffing
hopping
walking with difficulty
walking haltingly
walking lamely
walking unevenly
walking with a limp
jerking
yawing
tilting
ducking
leaning
swinging
dodging
heaving
moving to the side
tossing
plunging
rocking
labouring
UK
keeling
listing
laboring
US
rolling around in
lolling
rolling about
tossing about
sprawling
moving around in
making heavy weather
“I had to
fumble
around in the dark as I groped around for the light switch.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to search by groping or feeling for something concealed
fishing
scrabbling
feeling
groping
searching
rummaging
delving
ferreting
hunting
looking
fossicking
seeking
probing
scouting
casting about
casting around
ferrets about
ferreting around
casting round
rooting about
rooting around
rummaging about
rummaging around
rummaging round
looking for
digging around
nosing about
nosing around
looking high and low
grabbling
fingering
floundering
rooting
prying
examining
exploring
manipulating
handling
poking
rootling around
rousting around
feeling blindly
foraging
combing
pursuing
scouring
ransacking
fishing around
scratching around
fishing about
grubbing
scavenging
scrounging
fine-tooth-combing
looking round
looking about
scratching about
nosing round
hunting around
looking around
scrounging around
scanning
sifting
questing
chasing
tracing
prospecting
rootling
dragging
investigating
scouting out
winnowing
skirring
casting around for
rootling about
foraging around
foraging about
looking up
ferreting out
seeking out
searching high heaven
looking all over hell
casting about for
going after
groping around
tracking down
scouring around
chasing down
fishing for
trying to find
shopping for
searching out
foraging for
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to physically struggle or flail around clumsily
floundering
struggling
thrashing
threshing
squirming
writhing
contorting
convulsing
flailing
groping
lurching
pitching
staggering
tossing
tumbling
flapping
jerking
wriggling
thrashing about
tossing and turning
twisting and turning
casting about
splashing
twisting
blundering
stumbling
wiggling
twitching
jiggling
fidgeting
fidgetting
jigging
squiggling
fiddling
rolling
turning
agonizing
US
worming
agonising
UK
heaving
plunging
flailing about
distorting
shifting
jolting
wallowing
suffering
wincing
bending
recoiling
sliding
slithering
worrying
winding
skewing
feeling uncomfortable
lying
wading
weltering
wagging
waggling
zigzagging
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause disarray or disorganization in the order of
muddling
disordering
jumbling
confusing
disarranging
disorganizing
scrambling
disarraying
disturbing
discombobulating
discomposing
disrupting
mixing up
muddying
mussing
rumpling
shuffling
tousling
upsetting
disheveling
dishevelling
disjointing
dislocating
misarranging
tangling
blundering
botching
bungling
cluttering
complicating
entangling
fouling
messing
mixing
mucking
muffing
perturbing
ravelling
UK
raveling
US
ruffling
snafuing
snarling
spoiling
fouling up
jumbling up
lousing up
messing up
psyching out
stirring up
throwing off
getting into a tangle
throwing into disorder
making a mess of
Noun
▲
The characteristic of being tentative
tentativeness
wavering
hesitancy
indecision
indecisiveness
vacillation
doubt
faltering
fluctuation
equivocation
pause
irresolution
oscillation
delay
dubiety
irresoluteness
scepticism
UK
skepticism
US
dawdling
indisposition
misgiving
mistrust
procrastination
qualm
scruple
demurral
reluctance
unwillingness
stumbling
stammering
stuttering
averseness
delaying
timidity
timidness
shilly-shally
to-and-fro
hemming and hawing
hesitation
uncertainty
dithering
unsureness
hesitance
shilly-shallying
fence-sitting
wabbling
swithering
wobbling
incertitude
humming and hawing
blowing hot and cold
woolliness
inconclusiveness
vagueness
indefiniteness
unclearness
indeterminacy
changeability
failure to act
inaction
ambivalence
doubtfulness
waiting
teetering
temporizing
US
havering
temporization
stalling
dilly-dallying
faint-heartedness
cunctation
shillyshallying
hanging back
changeableness
second thoughts
weakness
lack of resolution
half-heartedness
temporising
UK
sitting on the fence
qualms
misgivings
disinclination
scruples
unease
uneasiness
reticence
reservations
doubts
compunction
diffidence
aversion
resistance
dislike
distaste
disrelish
trepidation
timorousness
objection
questioning
repugnance
slowness
backwardness
dubiousness
foot-dragging
backwardness in coming forward
lack of enthusiasm
pangs of conscience
worries
lingering
loitering
opposition
refusal
dallying
pausing
tarrying
postponement
deferment
indisposedness
coyness
aversion to
sweerness
nolence
distaste for
dislike for
nolition
dilatoriness
slackness
loathing
opposition to
hatred
loathness
demur
disfavor
US
disfavour
UK
objection to
antipathy
resistance to
disliking
dissatisfaction
displeasure
alienation
lack of desire
reprieve
lagging behind
respite
breather
recess
dragging your feet
kicking the can down the road
delaying tactics
rest
adjournment
nervousness
disbelief
confusion
cynicism
incredulity
apprehension
misbelief
unbelief
perplexity
reservation
chariness
wariness
distrustfulness
misdoubt
bewilderment
insecurity
dubitation
mistrustfulness
query
difficulty
distrust
suspicion
inhibition
leeriness
quandary
queries
suspicions
questions
ambiguity
fear
lack of trust
lack of certainty
lack of confidence
disquiet
faithlessness
lack of faith
trust issues
lack of conviction
umbrage
question mark
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Not having or showing skill
unskilful
clumsy
cowboy
awkward
bungling
incompetent
inept
inexpert
amateur
amateurish
inexperienced
maladroit
unhandy
unpractised
unprofessional
unskilled
untrained
blundering
botching
crude
gauche
ham-fisted
rude
unsophisticated
cack-handed
ham-handed
unworkmanlike
not up to scratch
graceless
butterfingered
bumbling
handless
heavy-handed
unco
left-handed
poor
inefficient
backwards
ungainly
lumbering
gawky
ungraceful
uncoordinated
inelegant
klutzy
oafish
gawkish
ponderous
gangling
unskillful
clownish
botched
stumbling
cloddish
undexterous
heavy
fumbled
unadept
blunderous
elephantine
untalented
labored
US
laboured
UK
all thumbs
all fingers and thumbs
with two left feet
accident-prone
like a bull in a china shop
useless
incapable
unfit
unqualified
ineffectual
substandard
unfitted
inapt
unproficient
unable
inadequate
inferior
clodhopping
ineffective
floundering
dilettante
dilettantish
deficient
no good
wanting
nonprofessional
jackleg
hopeless
lubberly
unpolished
shoddy
slipshod
sloppy
bad
unequipped
weak
undependable
skill-less
not good enough
lacking ability
slapdash
coarse
pathetic
lacking
shambling
careless
unapt
unreliable
inproficient
inefficacious
stiff
bush-league
impotent
green
rough
bovine
a dead loss
not up to snuff
flat-footed
not much cop
foolish
muddled
leaving much to be desired
unaccomplished
inadept
bodged
unsuitable
unrefined
disqualified
insufficient
ineligible
unsatisfactory
worthless
not equal to
unwieldy
butterfingers
faulty
defective
lousy
cumbersome
heavy-footed
bum
uncouth
wooden
feeble
powerless
stilted
clunky
not up to it
not cut out for
out of your depth
not agile
all thumbs
talentless
insipid
hack
nonexpert
mutton-fisted
second-rate
unpracticed
uncultivated
loser
feckless
shiftless
unsteady
without finesse
rough-and-tumble
crass
hulking
loutish
unequal
indelicate
slouching
lacking finesse
two left feet
unsuited
artless
half-baked
naive
imperfect
not equipped to
fumbly
duff
can't hack it
couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery
not up to
coltish
unequal to the task
rough-hewn
not much chop
no great shakes
not know one's arse from one's elbow
lacking experience
having two left feet
having two left hands
ill-bred
unacceptable
dissatisfactory
wretched
suboptimal
subpar
wrong
wack
paltry
lame
crummy
punk
off
bush
sour
crumby
ill
raw
incapacitated
helpless
uninitiated
unadapted
farcical
less capable
out to lunch
not have it
unable to do something for toffee
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