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Definition of blunder:
- A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
- Confusion; disturbance.
- To cause to blunder.
- To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
- To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
- To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
Synonyms:
grope, thrive, blurt, bollocks up, mismanage, boo-boo, bungle, sin, flub, bobble, muck up, boner, move, snafu, bumbler, botch up, trespass, pratfall, fumble, correct, spoil, blooper, foul-up, fumbler, limp, muddle, screw up, help, fudge, mess up, bloomer, louse up, bumble, bodge, ball up, foozle, fuckup, lapse, ejaculate, blunderer, botcher, transgress, blunder out, boggle, botcher, study at error, bollix, bollocks, mishandle, ability, stumble, drop the ball, stumbler, goof, gum up, blow, botch, bull, shuffle, goof up, bungler, boob, sad sack, muff, butcher, stagger, trip up, blurt out, bollix up.
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err (part of speech: verb)
- misconstrue,
- misestimate,
- botch,
- err,
- miscalculate,
- bungle,
- misconceive,
- mar,
- fluff,
- slip,
- goof,
- stumble,
- trip,
- misjudge
- fail (part of speech: verb)
- error (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
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That was what she wanted to do, but felt she might easily blunder over it.
- "Somehow Good", William de Morgan. -
Crebillon was much amused with my blunder, and he told me that I ought to have said after instead of behind.
- "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. -
You had very nearly made a most shocking blunder in putting it all upon poor Lady Battersby.
- "The Parent's Assistant", Maria Edgeworth.