Synonyms of blunderbuss

blunderbuss

noun

ˈblən-dər-ˌbəs 

as in butcher

someone who bungles an effort

leave it to that blunderbuss to bungle a job that a child could do

Synonyms & Similar Words

• butcher
• blunderer
• incompetent
• bungler
• bumbler
• botcher
• fumbler
• screwup
• muddler

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• master
• expert
• virtuoso
• wizard
• maestro
• ace
• crackerjack
• adept

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of blunderbuss

Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs. — Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025

Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state. — Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025

Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton. — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024