Blunder — Defs

01 v. i. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

imp. & p. p. Blundered; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.” — Goldsmith.

“Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace.” — Dryden.

Phrases & compounds

To blunder on — To continue blundering.

02 v. t. To cause to blunder.

1.
To cause to blunder.[Obs.]
2.
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
“He blunders and confounds all these together.” — Stillingfleet.

03 n. Confusion; disturbance.

1.
Confusion; disturbance.[Obs.]
2.
A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

Syn. 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.