Bumbling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bumbling
       adj : not skillful in physical movement 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: {bungling}, {butterfingered},
              {ham-fisted}, {ham-handed}, {handless}, {heavy-handed},
              {left-handed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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