Synonyms of bumbles

bumbles 1 of 2

verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of bumble

as in buzzes

to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound

a fly bumbling around the room while we were trying to sleep

Synonyms & Similar Words

• buzzes
• zips
• hums
• whirrs
• whirs
• whispers
• zooms
• whizzes
• burrs
• drones
• whistles
• hisses
• sighs
• purrs
• fizzes
• coos
• whishes
• wheezes
• rustles
• thrums
• chirrs
• murmurs
• swishes
• whooshes
• churrs
• sizzles
• currs

bumbles

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of bumble

1

as in fumbles

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

accused the White House staff of bumbling the announcement of the replacement for the cabinet post

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fumbles
• blows
• bungles
• botches
• fluffs
• dubs
• flubs
• murders
• boots
• bobbles
• mangles
• ruins
• muffs
• spoils
• boggles
• destroys
• screws up
• butchers
• fouls up
• mars
• goofs (up)
• blunders
• mucks up
• muddles
• damages
• injures
• foozles
• wrecks
• flaws
• messes (up)
• buggers (up)
• louses up
• bollixes (up)
• blights
• hurts
• mutilates
• harms
• impairs
• mismanages
• vitiates
• blemishes
• gums (up)
• piffles
• mishandles

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improves
• helps
• reforms
• enhances
• rectifies
• refines
• remedies
• ameliorates
• betters
• repairs
• fixes
• doctors
• meliorates
• renovates
• patches
• reconditions
• revamps

2

as in stumbles

to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

I sort of bumbled through the dance number, hoping that it would soon end

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stumbles
• struggles
• blunders
• flounders
• shuffles
• trudges
• limps
• fumbles
• lurches
• plods
• lumbers
• jogs
• falters
• staggers
• sways
• reels
• flogs
• wallows
• shambles
• totters
• muddles
• welters
• teeters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• flies
• glides
• zooms
• zips
• sails
• coasts
• kilts

3

as in sputters

to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly

overcome with stage fright, I could only bumble through the speech

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sputters
• chats
• gibbers
• babbles
• prattles
• chatters
• shouts
• drools
• jabbers
• stutters
• rattles
• mutters
• drivels
• mumbles
• gabbles
• shrieks
• stammers
• blathers
• blabbers
• screeches
• prates
• gabs
• yacks
• bleats
• trolls
• patters
• jangles
• smatters
• yaks
• murmurs
• jaws
• mouths
• blithers
• chunters
• runs on
• tittle-tattles
• maunders

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• articulates
• pronounces
• enunciates