Bungling Synonyms and Antonyms

Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; ; ; ; - Mary H. Vorse
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. clumsy
  2. awkward
  3. unskillful
  4. inept
  5. incompetent
  6. amateurish
  7. bumbling
  8. gauche
  9. butterfingered
  10. inapt
  11. ham-fisted
  12. inexpert
  13. fumbling
  14. ham-handed
  15. maladroit
  16. handless
  17. heavy-handed
  18. left-handed
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. spoiling
  2. muffing
  3. fumbling
  4. blowing
  5. mishandling
  6. botching
  7. mismanaging
  8. slipping
  9. bumbling
  10. blundering
  11. mistaking
  12. muddling
  13. boggling
  14. goofing
  15. erring
  16. butchering
Antonyms:
  1. fixing
  2. managing
  3. succeeding
To carry out badly or ruin through ineptitude; botch.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. botching

Words Related to Bungling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Bungling Sentence Examples

  • Although his character is a backwards bungling reporter, Cohen himself is no fool.

  • On the 14th of March 1867 Thiers in the French Chamber gave voice to the indignation of France at the bungling policy that had suffered the aggrandizement of Prussia.

  • But Lombard conquest was bungling and wasteful; when they had spoiled a city they proceeded to tear down its walls and raze it to the ground.

  • Philosophy, in the Greek view, should be the art as well as the science of good life; and hedonistic philosophy would seem a bungling and uncertain art of pleasure, as pleasure is ordinarily conceived.

  • The kings majority, solemnly proclaimed on the 28th of October 1614, further strengthened the throne; while owing to the bungling of the third estate, who did not contrive to gain the support of the clergy and the nobility by some sort of concessions, the states-general, the last until 1789, proved like the others a mere historic episode, an impotent and inorganic expedient.

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