Synonyms of blundering

blundering

verb

present participle of blunder

1

as in fumbling

to make a mistake

even though the prosecution had blundered several times in presenting its case, it ultimately prevailed

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in stumbling

to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

blundered his way through an acceptance speech

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stumbling
• struggling
• bumbling
• floundering
• shuffling
• trudging
• fumbling
• limping
• plodding
• lurching
• lumbering
• shambling
• jogging
• swaying
• faltering
• flogging
• reeling
• staggering
• wallowing
• tottering
• muddling
• weltering
• teetering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• flying
• gliding
• coasting
• sailing
• zooming
• zipping
• kilting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of blundering

On Monday, the first day of the trial in which Basabe is representing himself without an attorney, the proceedings were shaded by Basabe’s blundering legal missteps and procedural chaos. — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

The bull sagged at the front quarters, then began a desperate, blundering run. — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026

Earlier this year, two Serve Robotics machines were spotted blundering into the middle of a police incident while cops apprehended a man who appeared to be having a mental health crisis. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 24 June 2026

When the toys use messaging apps to control their owners in ways that go terrifyingly unnoticed, humankind itself seems to be blundering about with its brain unplugged. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

The consequences ranged from hobbling Reconstruction to hastening the end of the Ottoman Empire to poisonous deflation, and the blundering response by governments helped shape the modern world. — Air Mail, 6 June 2026

The broadest of comedies, the film’s often puerile humor is driven by an endless stream of male bungling, blundering and whining, only to be kicked up a notch by pratfalls of nearly every variety, from getting bucked off a galloping horse to tripping into a pile of trash. — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 27 May 2026

Right now, the source of the disruption in the airline industry is the President’s blundering rather than a financial meltdown that originated on Wall Street. — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 11 May 2026

Verizon never would have gotten the chance to buy Yahoo’s online operations if not for the company’s perpetual blundering under seven different CEOs in 16 years. — Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026