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Synonyms for bungle

39 synonyms
1 antonym
2 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

botch mess up blow bumble

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Botch — to incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble

botch, flub US AU NZ, mess up, blow, bumble, botch up informal, spoil, fumble, muff, muck up informal, mar, bobble, patch, louse up informal, boggle, butcher, fluff, foul up, mishandle, bollix, bolix US, bodge, ball up slang dated

Other

blunder, flounder, foozle

Noun

1. Fuckup

boo-boo informal, blooper, boner, bloomer, pratfall, stumble, goof, faux pas, solecism, fuckup vulgar

Other

screw-up, fuck-up, muddle

Antonyms

All antonyms of bungle →

Definitions

v. 1
To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
n. 1
A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.

Related words

Word family: bungled bungler bunglesome bungling

Forms

Plural: bungles → boo-boos, bloopers, boners, bloomers…
Past participle: bungled
e.g. bungled → botched, flubbed, blown, bumbled…

Example sentences

fumble Don't fumble with anything during an interview.
botch Tom and Mary hope that they don't botch the job.
blunder Don't worry about your blunder: it wasn't serious.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
bungle		steady
fumble		rising
bumble		steady
botch		rising
blunder		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: mar¹
4 letters: blow¹, goof¹, muff¹, flub
5 letters: patch¹, spoil¹, fluff¹, boner², botch¹, bodge, bolix
6 letters: fumble², bumble², muddle², bobble², boggle², fuckup, bollix, foozle
7 letters: butcher², stumble², blunder², bloomer², blooper²
8 letters: flounder², pratfall², solecism
9 letters: mishandle³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (boner² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: rater
Italiano: fare cilecca
Español: atascar
Deutsch: verfehlen
Català: fer llufa