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flounders

verb , present tense third-person singular of flounder

Synonyms and Antonyms of flounders

1 to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

unprepared choristers who floundered helplessly through the musical number

Synonyms of flounders

blunders, bumbles, flogs [British], limps, lumbers, plods, struggles, stumbles, trudges

Words Related to flounders

jogs, shambles, shuffles

wallows, welters

falters, lurches, reels, staggers, sways, teeters, totters

fumbles, muddles

Near Antonyms of flounders

coasts, flies, glides, kilts, sails, zips, zooms

2 to move heavily or clumsily

the car floundered through the heavy wet snow, constantly getting stuck

Synonyms of flounders

barges, clumps, flogs [British], galumphs, lumbers, lumps, plods, pounds, scuffles, scuffs, shambles, shuffles, slogs, sloughs, stamps, stomps, stumbles, stumps, tramps, tromps, trudges

Words Related to flounders

drags, flops, hauls

blunders, careens, dodders, lurches, reels, staggers, sways, teeters, totters, waddles, weaves, wobbles (also wabbles)

Near Antonyms of flounders

drifts, floats, hangs, hovers, poises, wafts

Antonyms of flounders

breezes, coasts, glides, slides, waltzes, whisks

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