Synonyms for fumbling
fum·bling

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetentadjective

   showing lack of skill or aptitude

   "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

   Synonyms:
   butterfingered, handless, ill-chosen, clumsy, heavy-handed, unqualified, awkward, cumbersome, ungainly, bunglesome, unequal to(p), unskilled, bumbling, ham-handed, incompetent, unwieldy, ham-fisted, clunky, inapt, inept, bungling, incapable, gawky, left-handed

   Antonyms:
   skilled

How to pronounce fumbling?

How to say fumbling in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use fumbling in a sentence?

1. John W. Gardner:

   We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

2. New Jersey:

   There's a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden's ability to carry the ball across the end line without fumbling.

3. Amanda Graham:

   Young people are fumbling in the dark with what seems logical, but there is no safe level of cigarette smoking.

4. Google UX researcher Zachary Yorke:

   Were ingrained to avoid talking at the same time while minimizing silence between turns. A delay of five-tenths of a second [500 milliseconds] -- whether from laggy audio or fumbling for the unmute button -- is more than double what were used to in-person.

5. Owen Labrie:

   Fumbling to put the condom on, I thought to myself, 'Maybe we shouldn't do this,' it wouldn't have been a good move, to have sex with this girl.