'Blunder' definitions:
Definition of 'Blunder'
From: GCIDE
- Blunder \Blun"der\, v. t.
- 1. To cause to blunder. [Obs.] "To blunder an adversary." --Ditton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. [1913 Webster]
- He blunders and confounds all these together. --Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blunder'
From: GCIDE
- Blunder \Blun"der\, n.
- 1. Confusion; disturbance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull.
- Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blunder'
From: GCIDE
- Blunder \Blun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering.] [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. [1913 Webster]
- I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blunder'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- act of folly,
- bad job,
- be all thumbs,
- bevue,
- blooper,
- blow,
- blunder away,
- blunder into,
- blunder on,
- blunder upon,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- bollix,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- botch,
- bull,
- bumble,
- bungle,
- butcher,
- careen,
- career,
- clumsy performance,
- commit a gaffe,
- dumb trick,
- err,
- error,
- etourderie,
- falter,
- faux pas,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- flub,
- fluff,
- folly,
- foozle,
- fumble,
- gaffe,
- gaucherie,
- goof,
- goof up,
- gum up,
- hash,
- howler,
- imprudence,
- indiscretion,
- labor,
- lapse,
- louse up,
- lumber,
- lurch,
- make a blunder,
- make a misstep,
- mar,
- mess,
- miscue,
- miss,
- miss the mark,
- misspeak,
- mistake,
- muddle,
- muff,
- murder,
- off day,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- play havoc with,
- plunge,
- reel,
- rock,
- roll,
- sad work,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- seethe,
- slip,
- slip up,
- snapper,
- solecism,
- sottise,
- spoil,
- stagger,
- struggle,
- stumble,
- stupid thing,
- stupidity,
- sway,
- swing,
- thrash about,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- trip,
- tumble,
- unwise step,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- welter