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[syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
bumbling \bumbling\ adj.
not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands;
as, a bumbling mechanic.
Syn: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed,
handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bumbling
adj 1: 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"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling,
butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
heavy-handed, left-handed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "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