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bumbling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bumbling has 1 sense
- bumbling(s = adj.all) bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed - lacking physical movement skills, 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
bumbling, adj.
not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; as, a bumbling mechanic. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
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
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