bungle

bungle is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
2. transitive verb. To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
3. noun. A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
4. noun. an embarrassing mistake

   Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, botch, flub, fuckup, pratfall

5. verb. spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly

   "I bungled it!"

6. verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

   "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"

   "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

   Synonyms: blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, flub, fluff, fumble, mishandle, muff

Synonyms

bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, botch, flub, fuckup, pratfall, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, bumble, fluff, fumble, mishandle, muff, spoil

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bungle:

blunge

Common word forms

bungled, bungler, bungles, bungling

Words from these letters

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