bumbling

3 definitions found

bumbling - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  bumbling \bumbling\ adj.
     not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands;
     as, a bumbling mechanic.
  
     Syn: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed,
          handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.
          [WordNet 1.5]

bumbling - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bumbling
      adj 1: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the
             hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance";
             "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely
             empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor
             creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling,
             butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
             heavy-handed, left-handed]

bumbling - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "bumbling":
     all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bungling,
     butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted,
     cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky,
     graceless, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking,
     hulky, inelegant, inept, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly,
     lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, sloppy, stiff,
     uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unhappy, unwieldy,
     wooden