Synonyms of fumbling

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adjective

as in uncomfortable

Synonyms & Similar Words

• uncomfortable
• wooden
• klutzy
• gawky
• ungainly
• clumsy
• ungraceful
• bungling
• stilted
• gauche
• uneasy
• awkward
• graceless
• rough-hewn
• butterfingered
• unhandy
• stiff
• uncoordinated
• handless
• ham-handed
• ham-fisted
• incompetent
• heavy-handed
• incapable
• maladroit
• inept
• inexpert

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• handy
• cunning
• clever
• deft
• dexterous
• graceful
• flexible
• dextrous
• nimble
• agile
• coordinated
• lithe
• limber
• lithesome
• lissome
• lissom
• spry

fumbling

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verb

present participle of fumble

1

as in blowing

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

her assistant fumbled the party plans by getting the time wrong on the invitations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blowing
• bungling
• dubbing
• bumbling
• botching
• murdering
• mangling
• ruining
• booting
• bobbling
• butchering
• fluffing
• spoiling
• destroying
• muffing
• flubbing
• blundering
• boggling
• marring
• damaging
• screwing up
• goofing (up)
• fouling up
• wrecking
• mucking up
• muddling
• messing (up)
• foozling
• injuring
• buggering (up)
• hurting
• impairing
• bollixing (up)
• lousing up
• mutilating
• harming
• gumming (up)
• blighting
• flawing
• piffling
• mishandling
• vitiating
• mismanaging
• blemishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• helping
• enhancing
• refining
• reforming
• rectifying
• remedying
• ameliorating
• bettering
• repairing
• fixing
• patching
• revamping
• meliorating
• doctoring
• renovating
• reconditioning

2

as in groping

to search for something blindly or uncertainly

the librarian fumbled for the light switch as she entered the dark room

Synonyms & Similar Words

• groping
• looking
• reaching
• feeling
• scrabbling
• fishing
• grabbing
• clutching
• hunting
• snatching
• raking
• capturing
• rummaging
• seizing
• combing
• grabbling
• seeking (out)
• scouring
• casting about
• nailing
• ransacking
• dredging
• rifling
• corralling
• getting
• digging (through)
• nabbing

3

as in stumbling

to make a mistake

just when it looked like he was going to get away with the ruse, he fumbled

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stumbling
• tripping
• blundering
• nodding
• flubbing
• fluffing
• mistaking
• erring
• misunderstanding
• dropping the ball
• slipping up
• boobing
• screwing up
• goofing (up)
• fouling up
• bungling
• laying an egg
• botching
• lousing up
• muffing
• mangling
• messing (up)
• murdering
• bobbling
• misjudging
• miscalculating
• miscounting
• butchering
• mishandling
• misconceiving
• miscuing
• misconstruing
• misinterpreting
• misgaging
• foozling
• misdeeming
• misgauging