Synonyms of bungle

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verb (1)

as in to fumble

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

bungled the job the first time she tried to do it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fumble
• blow
• botch
• ruin
• dub
• murder
• mangle
• butcher
• spoil
• boot
• boggle
• destroy
• flub
• bumble
• muff
• screw up
• mar
• goof (up)
• blunder
• fluff
• foul up
• muck up
• damage
• bobble
• injure
• muddle
• foozle
• bugger (up)
• wreck
• flaw
• mess (up)
• louse up
• bollix (up)
• impair
• hurt
• gum (up)
• mutilate
• harm
• blight
• mismanage
• vitiate
• blemish
• piffle
• mishandle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• better
• improve
• help
• rectify
• remedy
• enhance
• reform
• ameliorate
• refine
• patch
• fix
• repair
• meliorate
• revamp
• renovate
• recondition
• doctor

bungle

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noun

as in botch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• botch
• fumble
• bobble
• blunder
• mistake
• foul-up
• mix-up
• misstep
• miscue
• inaccuracy
• flub
• error
• goof
• stumble
• lapse
• chaos
• oversight
• slip
• disarray
• disorganization
• shambles
• slipup
• disorder
• jumble
• hash
• mess
• disarrangement
• fault
• confusion
• muddle

bungling

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adjective

as in clumsy

showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation)

I refuse to let that bungling incompetent insult me again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clumsy
• awkward
• botched
• inept
• incompetent
• inexperienced
• careless
• sloppy
• maladroit
• fumbled
• inexpert
• inefficient
• amateurish
• amateur
• ineffectual
• unprofessional
• unskilled
• unpolished
• green
• tactless
• crude
• misguided
• ineffective
• misdirected
• tacky
• unskillful
• undiplomatic
• ill-advised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• adroit
• competent
• professional
• deft
• facile
• capable
• skilled
• skillful
• able
• expert
• talented
• clever
• adept
• masterly
• consummate
• proficient
• dexterous
• masterful
• diplomatic
• accomplished
• dextrous
• polished
• easy
• crackerjack
• smooth
• tactful
• gracious
• effortless

bungling

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verb (2)

present participle of bungle

as in fumbling

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

bungled the job the first time she tried to do it

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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