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Main Entry: bungler
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who blunders

Synonyms:

addlebrain, blockhead, blunderer, bonehead, botcher, bumbler, butcher, butterfingers, clod, clumsy oaf, dolt, donkey, duffer, dunce, featherbrain, fool, foul-up, fumbler, goof off, goofball, harebrain, idiot, ignoramus, incompetent, klutz, mismanager, muddler, muffer, numskull, screw up, spoiler

Antonyms:

success
Main Entry: disorganization
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unordered situation or thing

Synonyms:

anarchy, chaos, confusion, derangement, disarray, disjointedness, disorder, disruption, dissolution, disunion, foul-up, incoherence, mix-up, rat's nest, screw-up, unconnectedness, unholy mess

Antonyms:

coherence, method, neatness, order, organization, plan, system, tidiness
Main Entry: faux pas
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social error

Synonyms:

blooper, blooper, blunder, blunder in etiquette, boo-boo, botch, breach, break, bungle, colossal blunder, error, flop, flub, foul-up, gaffe, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hash, impropriety, indecorum, indiscretion, mess, mess-up, misconduct, misjudgment, misstep, mistake, offense, oversight, slip, social blunder, solecism, transgression
Main Entry: indiscretion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mistake

Synonyms:

bumble, crudeness, dropping the ball, dumb move, error, excitability, faux pas, folly, fool mistake, foolishness, foul-up, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hastiness, imprudence, indiscreetness, ingenuousness, lapse, miscue, misjudgment, misspeak, naiveté, rashness, recklessness, screw-up, simple-mindedness, slip of the tongue, slip*, slip-up, stumble, stupidity, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, unseemliness

Antonyms:

care, discreetness, discretion, right
Main Entry: muddle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: confused state

Synonyms:

ataxia, awkwardness, botch, chaos, clutter, complexity, complication, confusion, daze, difficulty, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, emergency, encumbrance, fog, foul-up, hash, haze, intricacy, involvement, jumble, mess, mess and a half, mix-up, muss, perplexity, plight, predicament, quandary, rat's nest, screw-up, shambles, snarl, struggle, tangle, trouble

Antonyms:

enlightenment, order, organization
Main Entry: slip
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: error, goof

Synonyms:

blooper, blunder, bungle, failure, fault, flub, fluff, foul-up, gaff, howler, imprudence, indiscretion, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, omission, oversight, screw-up, slip of the tongue, slip-up, trip

Antonyms:

correction, perfection, success
Main Entry: snafu
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mistake

Synonyms:

blooper, blunder, bungle, confusion, error, false step, faux pas, flub, foul-up, goof-up, mess, miscalculation, misjudgment, misunderstanding, mix-up, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup
Main Entry: screwup
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: botch

Synonyms:

bumble, flub, foul-up, fumble, mess*, muddle, muff, shambles, stumble, wreck
Related Words
Main Entry: disorganization
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
aflunters, chaogenous, deranged, disconcerted, farmisht, fartumlt, indiscriminate, mixtymaxty, mommixed, nebulochaotic, raddled, wopsy
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Bungler.
Category: 2. Complex voluntary action

Synonyms:

-nouns
bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers., no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab; clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot., land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack (deceiver); lord of misrule., sloven, slattern, trapes.
-phrases
il n'a pas invente' la oudre; he will never set the Thames on fire; acierta errando; aliquis in omnibus nullus in singulis.

Antonyms:

proficient
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