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Detailed Synonyms for fumbling in English

fumbling:

fumbling adj

  1. fumbling
  2. fumbling
  3. fumbling
    – showing lack of skill or aptitude 1
    clumsy; incompetent; fumbling; bungling
    – showing lack of skill or aptitude 1

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Alternate Synonyms for "fumbling":


Related Definitions for "fumbling":

  1. showing lack of skill or aptitude1
    • his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf1

fumbling form of fumble:

to fumble verb (fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)

  1. to fumble
    to fumble
    • fumble verb (fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
  2. to fumble
    to muddle; to fiddle; to muck; to monkey; to fumble; to mess about
    • muddle verb (muddles, muddled, muddling)
    • fiddle verb (fiddles, fiddled, fiddling)
    • muck verb (mucks, mucked, mucking)
    • monkey verb (monkeys, monkeyed, monkeying)
    • fumble verb (fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
    • mess about verb (messes about, messed about, messing about)
  3. to fumble
    – drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder 1
    to fumble
    – drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder 1
    • fumble verb (fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
      • fumble a grounder1
  4. to fumble
    – handle clumsily 1
    to fumble
    – handle clumsily 1
    • fumble verb (fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
  5. to fumble
    – feel about uncertainly or blindly 1
    to grope; to fumble
    – feel about uncertainly or blindly 1
    • grope verb (gropes, groped, groping)
      • She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom1
    • fumble verb (fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
  6. to fumble
    – make one's way clumsily or blindly 1
    to fumble; to blunder
    – make one's way clumsily or blindly 1
    • fumble verb (fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
      • He fumbled towards the door1
    • blunder verb (blunders, blundered, blundering)
  7. to fumble
    – make a mess of, destroy or ruin 1
    to spoil; to blow; to fumble; to muck up; to botch; to muff; to fluff; to bungle; botch up; ball up; flub; bollocks up; bollix up; bodge; screw up; bumble; bollocks; bollix
    – make a mess of, destroy or ruin 1

Conjugations for fumble:

present
  1. fumble
  2. fumble
  3. fumbles
  4. fumble
  5. fumble
  6. fumble
simple past
  1. fumbled
  2. fumbled
  3. fumbled
  4. fumbled
  5. fumbled
  6. fumbled
present perfect
  1. have fumbled
  2. have fumbled
  3. has fumbled
  4. have fumbled
  5. have fumbled
  6. have fumbled
past continuous
  1. was fumbling
  2. were fumbling
  3. was fumbling
  4. were fumbling
  5. were fumbling
  6. were fumbling
future
  1. shall fumble
  2. will fumble
  3. will fumble
  4. shall fumble
  5. will fumble
  6. will fumble
continuous present
  1. am fumbling
  2. are fumbling
  3. is fumbling
  4. are fumbling
  5. are fumbling
  6. are fumbling
subjunctive
  1. be fumbled
  2. be fumbled
  3. be fumbled
  4. be fumbled
  5. be fumbled
  6. be fumbled
diverse
  1. fumble!
  2. let's fumble!
  3. fumbled
  4. fumbling
1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they

fumble [the ~] noun

  1. the fumble
    – (sports) dropping the ball 1
    the fumble; the muff
    – (sports) dropping the ball 1

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Related Definitions for "fumble":

  1. (sports) dropping the ball1
  2. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder1
    • fumble a grounder1
  3. handle clumsily1
  4. feel about uncertainly or blindly1
  5. make one's way clumsily or blindly1
    • He fumbled towards the door1
  6. make a mess of, destroy or ruin1