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blunder
[ bluhn-der ]
verb (used without object)
- to move or act blindly, stupidly, or without direction or steady guidance:
Without my glasses I blundered into the wrong room.
- to make a gross or stupid mistake, especially through carelessness or mental confusion:
Just pray that he doesn't blunder again and get the names wrong.
verb (used with object)
- to bungle; botch:
Several of the accounts were blundered by that new assistant.
- to utter thoughtlessly; blurt out:
He blundered his surprise at their winning the award.
blunder
/ ˈblʌndə /
noun
- a stupid or clumsy mistake
- a foolish tactless remark
verb
- to make stupid or clumsy mistakes
- to make foolish tactless remarks
- often foll byabout, into, etc to act clumsily; stumble
he blundered into a situation he knew nothing about
- tr to mismanage; botch
Derived Forms
- ˈblunderer, noun
- ˈblundering, nounadjective
- ˈblunderingly, adverb
Other Words From
- blunder·er noun
- blunder·ing·ly adverb
- non·blunder·ing adjective noun
- non·blunder·ing·ly adverb
- outblunder verb (used with object)
- super·blunder noun
- un·blunder·ing adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of blunder1
Word History and Origins
Origin of blunder1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“The rape question was a tremendous blunder,” Doar later observed.
But that the CNN-John King blunder even happened is a cause for alarm.
He said the desperate, unplanned rush north was “the biggest blunder of the campaign.”
I tried a half-dozen other representatives, none who could remedy the blunder, all who cited different reasons for the occurrence.
Above all, this is not the time to blunder into horrendous religious and civil wars with direct and extensive U.S. military force.
I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.
So far, so good; but, in another quarter, Allcraft suddenly discovered that he had committed an egregious blunder.
By some extraordinary blunder of the commissariat the 32d had set forth that morning without breaking their fast.
His gay debonair manner and his ready apology for his own blunder pleased Mrs. Calvert.
The insertion of whyte in l. 905, in the existing authorities, is surely a blunder, and I therefore have omitted it.
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