BLUNDER
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
(noun) an embarrassing mistake
fumble, blunder
(verb) make one’s way clumsily or blindly; “He fumbled towards the door”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
blunder (plural blunders)
A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
(chess) A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
Synonyms
• (error): blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, flub, fluff, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
Verb
blunder (third-person singular simple present blunders, present participle blundering, simple past and past participle blundered)
(intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
(intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
(transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
(transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
Anagrams
• Ledburn, bundler
Source: Wiktionary
Blun"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering.]
Etym: [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh.
allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.]
1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or
preparing a medical prescription. Swift.
2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered
in making my bow. Goldsmith.
Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and
staggers every pace. Dryden.
To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if
by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to
something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.
Blun"der, v. t.
1. To cause to blunder. [Obs.] "To blunder an adversary." Ditton.
2. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.
Blun"der, n.
1. Confusion; disturbance. [Obs.]
2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity,
or culpable ignorance.
Syn.
– Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. An error is a departure or
deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the
press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking
of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a
careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It
supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness,
ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a
laughable incongruity of ideas.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition