to blunder

Examples

• All

• Happiness is something that we wind up blundering into.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• All of these rules and norms are what allow networks of us to blunder our way toward rationality and truth.

• Most of us blunder around until we get interested in something or get tired of looking.

  Fiction book (1993)

• - Oh, she probably just heard me blundering around out here.

  Demonicus (2001)

• Then that old woman blundered out of the forest.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Instead, they blunder into Lap's division in confused night fighting.

• What possessed you to come blundering in here like this?

  North by Northwest (1959)

• I guess I'm just an old blundering fool.

  Annie Oakley (1935)

• But these were mostly awkward and blundering affairs.

  Fiction book (2000)

• When I opened the door, a couple of nervous towhees blundered into the bushes.

  Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

B

to bumble

vsto blunder

18 5.4

To move in a clumsy, confused way

focuses on clumsy forward movement or progress lacking clear direction

M

to muddle along

vsto blunder

• Informal

1 7.2

To continue despite problems without a clear plan

focuses on clumsy or confused movement rather than steady struggling through tasks

M

to miswalk

vsto blunder

9.9

To walk the wrong way or into the wrong place because you are not paying attention

covers clumsy or confused progress without clear direction, not only foot errors

Antonyms

N

to navigate

148 3.6

Find a safe way through a place or difficult situation

Phrasal Verbs

M

to make a blunder

1 4.2

Do something that is a serious and embarrassing mistake

B

to blunder out

• Informal

7.4

To say something quickly and carelessly without thinking

Compounds

T

thud and blunder

• Informal

9.9

A clumsy way of working that makes repeated mistakes

How Clumsy

to blunder

5 4.8

to lurch

34 5.6

to stumble

129 1.6

shuffle

11 3.9

Surface Forms

Etymology