Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Fumbling   /fˈəmbəlɪŋ/  /fˈəmblɪŋ/   Listen
Fumbling

adjective
1.
Showing lack of skill or aptitude.  Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent.  "Did a clumsy job" , "His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"


Fumble

verb
(past & past part. fumbled; pres. part. fumbling)
1.
Feel about uncertainly or blindly.  Synonym: grope.
2.
Make one's way clumsily or blindly.  Synonym: blunder.
3.
Handle clumsily.
4.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
5.
Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder.



Related search:
fumbler


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Fumbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... There came a fumbling at the handle, and a moment later the door opened, and revealed, as she had at once known and feared it ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... thought you ought to be taken down a peg. I knew I was a squaw, but I wanted to see if I were not like other women, after all, and if you were not like other men." She was talking rapidly now, almost shrilly, for she had never attempted to act before, while he stood dazed and speechless, fumbling at his throat while she railed at him. "You needn't waste time debating whether I'm good enough for you, because I'm not—decidedly, I'm not your kind, and you are a joke ...
— The Barrier • Rex Beach
... over the Very Young Man as he recognized the face of Targo. And then his heart seemed to stop beating. For as he stared, fascinated, into the man's mocking eyes, he saw that slowly, steadily he was growing larger. Mechanically the Very Young Man's hand went to his armpit, his fingers fumbling at the pouch strapped underneath. The vial ...
— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings
... little delay in the cloakroom while the attendant searched for Philip's hat, which had been temporarily misplaced. Honeybrook, who had followed the two men out of the room, fumbling for a moment in his locker and, coming over to Philip, dropped something ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... bottom. He lay prone for a moment before he rose and made his way with evident effort toward the sphere. He entered the compartment and with a heroic effort lifted the outer door into place, and feebly and with fumbling fingers placed nuts on the bolts. His hands wandered uncertainly toward the valves and closed the upper one. He waved his hand toward Carnes and sank in a heap on the floor ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com