blunder

[blun·der]

A blunder is an embarrassing mistake. Accidentally called your new boyfriend by your old boyfriend's name? Ouch. That's a blunder you don't want to repeat.

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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

Noun
an embarrassing mistake

Verb
utter impulsively; "He blurted out the secret"; "He blundered his stupid ideas"

Verb
make one''s way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"

Verb
commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview"

v. i.
To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

v. i.
To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.

v. t.
To cause to blunder.

v. t.
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

n.
Confusion; disturbance.

n.
A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

Blunder

Blun"der , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blundered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering.] [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.] 1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.

I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.

Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace.

To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

Blunder

Blun"der, v. t. 1. To cause to blunder. [Obs.] "To blunder an adversary." Ditton. 2. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

He blunders and confounds all these together.

Blunder

Blun"der, n. 1. Confusion; disturbance. [Obs.] 2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance. Syn. -- Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas.

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

To cause to blunder.

Confusion; disturbance.

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Usage Examples

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

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Other Usage Examples

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.