'Bungling' definitions:
Definition of 'bungling'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent]
adjective
Lacking physical movement skills, 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 [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]
Definition of 'Bungling'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Bungling'
From: GCIDE
- Bungling \Bun"gling\, a. Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- They make but bungling work. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bungling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all thumbs,
- awkward,
- bad job,
- blunderheaded,
- blunderheadedness,
- blundering,
- boggling,
- boorish,
- botch,
- botched,
- botchery,
- botching,
- bumbling,
- butterfingered,
- careless,
- carelessness,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- cumbersome,
- deficient,
- fingers all thumbs,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- half-assed,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- haphazard,
- haphazardness,
- heavy-handed,
- hit-and-miss,
- hit-or-miss,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- inelegant,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- loose ends,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- maladroit,
- messiness,
- messy,
- muffing,
- oafish,
- ponderous,
- promiscuous,
- sad work,
- slapdash,
- slipshod,
- slipshoddiness,
- slipshoddy,
- slipshodness,
- sloppiness,
- sloppy,
- slovenliness,
- slovenly,
- slovenly performance,
- slovenry,
- sluttish,
- sluttishness,
- stiff,
- too many cooks,
- uncouth,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- untidiness,
- untidy,
- unwieldy