Definitions for blunder

blunder blun·der

Spelling: [bluhn-der]
IPA: /ˈblʌn dər/

Blunder is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in blunder (bdelnru).

Definitions for blunder

noun

  1. a gross, stupid, or careless mistake:

verb (used with object)

  1. to bungle; botch:
  2. to utter thoughtlessly; blurt out:

verb (used without object)

  1. to move or act blindly, stupidly, or without direction or steady guidance:
  2. to make a gross or stupid mistake, especially through carelessness or mental confusion:

Origin of blunder

1350-1400; Middle English blunderen, blondren, (v.) Old Norse blunda shut one's eyes, nap; compare Norwegian dialect blundra

Examples for blunder

If the South had not made the blunder of disunion, it might well have gotten its way through constitutional means.

I had made a blunder in thinking eighty miles only eighty miles under any circumstances.

We fear, also, that an English mayor has been known to blunder.

Above all, this is not the time to blunder into horrendous religious and civil wars with direct and extensive U.S. military force.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

I am sorry that Congress was taken in, and committed such a blunder.

As we say in our Untold History of the United States, “it was a blunder of epic proportions.”

At which he sneered, and said that was a bull and a blunder, but no wonder, as I was an Irishman.

The moment seems to be a familiar breed of Internet gaffe when a eager but inept social media staffer makes a blunder.

I tried a half-dozen other representatives, none who could remedy the blunder, all who cited different reasons for the occurrence.

Word Value for blunder
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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