Definition of Blunder

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Blunder

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.

To cause to blunder.

To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

Confusion; disturbance.

A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

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Blunder Quotations

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore

Blunder Translations

blunder in Norwegian is bommert
blunder in Swedish is groda, misstag, blunder

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