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bumbling definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything. ...a clumsy, bumbling, inarticulate figure. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

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