blundernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈblʌn.dər/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ/a serious mistake, usually caused by not taking care or thinking:
He said that the tax was a major political blunder.
I made a blunder by getting his name wrong.
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Faults and mistakes
- a blot on sb's character idiom
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- chink
- clinker
- creep in/creep into sth
- erratum
- error
- failing
- false alarm
- false move
- faux pas
- lapse
- loophole
- misprint
- misspell
- mistake
- mistaken
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blunderverb
uk/ˈblʌn.dər/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ/blunder verb (MOVE)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to move in an awkward way:
I could hear him blundering around in the darkness.
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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
- bumble
- doddery
- falter
- galumphing
- hardly/barely put one foot in front of the other idiom
- lollop
- lumber
- lurch
- reel
- schlep
- shamble
- shuffle
- slog
- squeeze
- stagger
- stumble
- toil
- totter
- trip (sb) up
- waddle
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blunder verb (MISTAKE)
[ I ] to make a serious mistake, usually because of not taking care or thinking:
Police blundered by not releasing more details about the case to focus public interest.
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Making mistakes
- balls
- balls (sth) up
- bodge
- botch
- confuse
- drop
- famous last words idiom
- goof
- making
- misdirect
- misstate
- put
- slip up
- speak/talk out of turn idiom
- to err is human (to forgive divine). idiom
- trip
- trip (sb) up
- turn
- unforced
- wrong
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blunderer
noun [ C ] uk/ˈblʌn.də.rər/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ.ɚ/
blundering
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˈblʌn.də.rɪŋ/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ.ɪŋ/
You blundering idiot! What do you think you're doing?