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Blunder   /blˈəndər/   Listen
noun
Blunder  n.  
1.
Confusion; disturbance. (Obs.)
2.
A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
Synonyms: Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas.


verb
Blunder  v. t.  
1.
To cause to blunder. (Obs.) "To blunder an adversary."
2.
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. "He blunders and confounds all these together."


Blunder  v. i.  (past & past part. blundered; pres. part. blundering)  
1.
To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
2.
To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. "I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow." "Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace."
To blunder on.
(a)
To continue blundering.
(b)
To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.





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"Blunder" Quotes from Famous Books



... are so surrounded by true affection that I never thought how my thoughtless use of that familiar phrase might be construed; but you must thank me for my little blunder, because it has served to show you what friends ...
— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac
... reporter, walked over and asked me if there were proofs of the immortality of the soul, excusing himself by saying that up to this time he had never had any particular time nor reason for reflection on this subject. That was the only psychological blunder that he made. However, it at last broke the heavy, painful silence, and we speculated together, instead of singly, how it might feel to have immortal bliss thrust upon us from the end of a ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams
... creature Tow'rds the unity of Nature; Sudden chivalries revealing whence the longing is renewed In the men that live for England, live and love and die for England: By the light of their desire They shall blindly blunder higher, To a wider, grander Kingdom ...
— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... other aspect did not exist for him. It was a blunder impossible to a race with a genius for calculation. 'How can three be one?' he would demand witheringly of his cronies. The question was in his eye now as he summed up Italian art to the sculptor, ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... continued to speak of her cousin) she made a most egregious blunder, that caused her opponent to pronounce the word "Mated!" he regarded it as a fatal omen, more especially as Mr. Frank came to her side at that very moment; and when the young lady laughed, and said, "What a goose I am! whatever could I have been thinking of?" he thought within himself ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede


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