fumbling

fum·ble  (fmbl)

v. fum·bled, fum·bling, fum·bles

v.intr.

1. To touch or handle nervously or idly: fumble with a necktie.

2. To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish something: fumble for a key.

3. To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder: fumble through a speech.

4.

a. Football To drop a ball that is in play.

b. Baseball To mishandle a ground ball.

v.tr.

1. To touch or handle clumsily or idly: "fumbled the receiver into its cradle" (Howard Kaplan).

2. To make a mess of; bungle. See Synonyms at botch.

3. To feel or make (one's way) awkwardly.

4.

a. Football To drop (a ball) while in play.

b. Baseball To mishandle (a ground ball).

n.

1. The act or an instance of fumbling.

2. Sports A ball that has been fumbled.

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[Middle English fomelen, to grope.]

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fumbler n.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

fumbling - showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" bungling, incompetent, clumsy unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"

Translations

fumbling

adj, fumblingly

adv → ungeschickt