bumbling – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
bumbling
adj.
awkward, clumsy; boastful, self-important (taken from a character in a Dickens novel)
bumble
v.
stumble, plod, be pulled along; make an error, commit a blunder; stammer, mumble, stutter
bumbling
Adjective
1. not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
(synonym) bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
(similar) maladroit
bumble
Verb
1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
(synonym) botch, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
(hypernym) fail, go wrong, miscarry
(derivation) bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup
2. walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"
(synonym) stumble, falter
(hypernym) walk
3. speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
(synonym) stutter, stammer, falter
(hypernym) talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
bumbling
Przym.
nieudolny
bumble
Czas.
poruszać się niezdarnie; być zdezorientowanym; jak hałasował
bumbling
Synonyms and related words:
all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, inept, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, sloppy, stiff, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unhappy, unwieldy, wooden
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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