clumsy fumbling

clumsy fumbling
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  • fumbling — adjective showing lack of skill or aptitude (Freq. 1) a bungling workman did a clumsy job his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf • Syn: ↑bungling, ↑clumsy, ↑incompetent …   Useful english dictionary

  • clumsy — Synonyms and related words: Doric, all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, botched, bovine, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, cloddish, clownish, clumsy fisted, coarse,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fumbling — Synonyms and related words: all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blunderheadedness, blundering, boggling, boorish, botchery, botching, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, carelessness, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, cumbersome, fingers …   Moby Thesaurus

  • clumsy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. awkward, lumbering; bungling, bumbling, left handed; cumbersome, unwieldy. See unskillfulness, gravity, ugliness. Ant., adroit, facile. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ungainly, inept, tactless,… …   English dictionary for students

  • fumbling — fum·ble || fÊŒmbl n. clumsy groping, awkward handling; drop a ball after catching or holding it (Football) v. handle awkwardly, grope about clumsily; fail to catch and hold a ball (Sports) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • bungling — adjective 1. showing lack of skill or aptitude a bungling workman did a clumsy job his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf • Syn: ↑clumsy, ↑fumbling, ↑incompetent • Similar to: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • neat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. tidy, orderly; compact, trim, shapely; pure, unmixed; deft, skillful, adroit; pat, felicitous. See cleanness, simpleness, order.Ant., messy, disorderly. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Clean and orderly] …   English dictionary for students

  • thumb — [thum] n. [ME (with unhistoric b) < OE thuma, akin to Ger daume(n) < IE base * tēu , to swell, increase > L tumor: basic sense, “enlarged finger”] 1. the short, thick digit of the human hand that is nearest the wrist and is opposable to… …   English World dictionary

  • botch — vb Botch, bungle, fumble, muff, cobble mean to handle or treat awkwardly or unskillfully. Botch may imply repairing or mending, but it frequently implies a making or forming by patching or by putting together out of pieces. It consistently… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • awkward — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. clumsy, ungraceful, ungainly; gauche; embarrassing. See unskillfulness, difficulty. Ant., adroit, dexterous. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unskillful] Syn. clumsy, inept, maladroit, ungainly,… …   English dictionary for students

  • fumble — I. verb (fumbled; fumbling) Etymology: probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish fumla to fumble Date: 1534 intransitive verb 1. a. to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly b. to make awkward attempts to do or find something… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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