Definition of Blundering

1. a. Characterized by blunders.

Definition of Blundering

1. Noun. The act of making a blunder. ¹

2. Verb. Present participle of ''to blunder''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blundering

1. blunder [v] - See also: blunder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blundering

blumpkins
blunder
blunder out
blunderbush
blunderbushes
blunderbuss
blunderbusses
blundered
blunderer
blunderers
blunderful
blunderhead
blunderheads
blunderin'
blundering (current term)
blunderingly
blunderings
blunderous
blunderously
blunders
blunge
blunged
blunger
blungers
blunges
blunging
blunk
blunked
blunker

Literary usage of Blundering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Twenty-five Years a Parson in the Wild West: Being the Experience of Parson by John Brown, Ralph Riley (1896)
"THE blundering. I began preaching in Nevada I used to preach very learnedly on ... blundering, too, was a failing of mine, and my people out yonder were not ..."

2. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"H.—beautiful; Spence Against Foreign Commerce—sad stuff, a vile mingle-mangle of blundering conclusions from Adam Smith, Economists, &c.; Lowe on State of ..."

3. The Italian in America by Eliot Lord, John J. D. Trenor, Samuel June Barrows (1905)
"... a recognition which every patriotic American may well prize, and a forecast Which only our incredible blundering in regard to immigration can falsify. ..."

4. What is Reality?: An Inquiry as to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion by Francis Howe Johnson (1891)
"The rudimentary nature of our self-knowledge is most strikingly illustrated by the persistent blundering of human beings in their pursuit of happiness ..."

5. The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 by James Knox Polk, Milo Milton Quaife (1910)
"The truth is that from the beginning of the War he has been constantly blundering into difficulties, but has fought out of them, but at the cost of many ..."

6. A Run Through the United States, During the Autumn of 1840 by Archibald Montgomery Maxwell (1841)
"... First Impression produced by the Sight of Washington —English Political blundering — Journey from ..."

7. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"blundering of a quarter of a century, and the expenditure of vast quantities of ink and paper. Bat every branch of industry is merely subsidiary to trade. ..."

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