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floundering
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | struggle; be in the dark |
| Synonyms: | blunder, bobble, cast about, come apart at the seams, drop the ball, fall down, flop, flummox, foul up, fumble, go at backwards, go to pieces, grope, labor, lurch, make a mess of, miss one's cue, muddle, plunge, pratfall, screw up, slip up, snafu, strive, stub one's toe, stumble, thrash, toil, toss, travail, trip up, tumble, wallow, work at |
| Notes: | founder means to sink, while flounder means to flail helplessly |
| Antonyms: | do well, succeed |
| Main Entry: | doddering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aged, feeble |
| Synonyms: | anile, decrepit, dotard, faltering, floundering, infirm, senile, shaky, tottering, trembling, unsteady, weak |
| Antonyms: | agile, young, youthful |
| Main Entry: | incompetent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unskillful, unable |
| Synonyms: | amateur, amateurish, awkward, bungling, bush-league, clumsy, disqualified, floundering, helpless, inadequate, incapable, ineffectual, inefficient, ineligible, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, insufficient, maladroit, not cut out for, not equal to, not have it, out to lunch, raw, unadapted, unequipped, unfit, unfitted, unhandy, uninitiated, unproficient, unqualified, unskilled, untrained, useless |
| Notes: | incompetent means not qualified or showing lack of skill or aptitude; incontinent means lacking control over urination and defecation |
| Antonyms: | able, adept, capable, competent, dexterous, effective, efficient, experienced, expert, proficient, skillful |
| Main Entry: | maladroit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward, clumsy |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, blundering, bumbling, bungling, clunky, floundering, gauche, halting, heavy-handed, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, stumbling, two left feet, ungraceful, unhandy, unskillful |
| Notes: | maladroit means clumsy or awkward or unskillful or inept; malapropos means unseasonable or unsuitable or inappropriate |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, skillful |
| Main Entry: | purposeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useless, insignificant |
| Synonyms: | aimless, designless, desultory, drifting, empty, feckless, floundering, fustian, goalless, good-for-nothing, haphazard, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, irregular, meaningless, motiveless, needless, nonsensical, pointless, purportless, random, senseless, uncalled for, undirected, unhelpful, unnecessary, unplanned, unprofitable, unpurposed, vacuous, wanton, worthless |
| Antonyms: | decided, deliberate, determined, planned, purposeful, significant, useful |
| Main Entry: | lashing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thrashing |
| Synonyms: | beating, floundering, hitting |
| Main Entry: | klutzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, clumsy, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin chance |
| Synonyms: | fail, flounder, goof, miscarry, miss |
| Antonyms: | do well, succeed |
| Main Entry: | blunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make mistake |
| Synonyms: | ball up, blow, bobble, botch, bumble, bungle, confuse, drop the ball, err, flounder, flub, foul up, fumble, gum up, louse up, mess up, misjudge, screw up, slip up, stumble |
| Antonyms: | correct, fix, restore |
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