Blunder
verb
Make a silly mistake.
I blundered my presentation today by forgetting my notes.
noun
A big mistake usually caused by carelessness or confusion.
His blunder in the calculations resulted in a financial loss for the company.
Often appears as...
- costly blunder
- gross blunder
verb
Move clumsily or as if unable to see.
I blundered around the unfamiliar room in the dark.
verb
Make a silly mistake.
I blundered my presentation today by forgetting my notes.
noun
A big mistake usually caused by carelessness or confusion.
His blunder in the calculations resulted in a financial loss for the company.
Often appears as...
- costly blunder
- gross blunder
verb
Move clumsily or as if unable to see.
I blundered around the unfamiliar room in the dark.
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Accidental Mistakes
Use 'blunder' when a mistake happens accidentally, often from a lack of attention.
She blundered by sending the confidential email to the wrong person.
Pro Tip 2/3Mild Connotation
'Blunder' suggests a mistake that is serious but not deeply harmful or malicious.
Despite the blunder of forgetting his lines, the play continued smoothly.
Pro Tip 3/3Self-Awareness
Emphasize recognizing one's own errors by using 'blunder' to accept responsibility.
I must admit I blundered the task by not following the instructions properly.
Pro Tip 1/3Accidental Mistakes
Use 'blunder' when a mistake happens accidentally, often from a lack of attention.
She blundered by sending the confidential email to the wrong person.
Pro Tip 2/3Mild Connotation
'Blunder' suggests a mistake that is serious but not deeply harmful or malicious.
Despite the blunder of forgetting his lines, the play continued smoothly.
Pro Tip 3/3Self-Awareness
Emphasize recognizing one's own errors by using 'blunder' to accept responsibility.
I must admit I blundered the task by not following the instructions properly.
Pro Tip 1/3Accidental Mistakes
Use 'blunder' when a mistake happens accidentally, often from a lack of attention.
She blundered by sending the confidential email to the wrong person.
Pro Tip 2/3Mild Connotation
'Blunder' suggests a mistake that is serious but not deeply harmful or malicious.
Despite the blunder of forgetting his lines, the play continued smoothly.
Pro Tip 3/3Self-Awareness
Emphasize recognizing one's own errors by using 'blunder' to accept responsibility.
I must admit I blundered the task by not following the instructions properly.
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
are no stranger to manipulation. We take drugs to shift the chemistries of our brains and to change our moods, and what are arguments or advertising or big ideas if not an attempt to influence someone else's mind? But our attempts at doing this are crude and blundering compared to the fine-grained specificity of the parasites.
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What game theory teaches...
greatest blunders policy blunders of the 20th century they announced that they had won the game they had won the Cold no they didn't the player dropped out because they ran out of the will or the resources to play and the problem is is because they thought they had won the
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The greatest TED Talk...
like a bunch of blundering idiots what do you think the response is gonna be I the responses mostly will be no but as the toughest cell because the felmers tough sell because of me both that meaning I'm not so optimistic so can you help me I need help I can
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Mapping the Unknown,...
saw that the universe was expanding when that was shown to him he then called this the biggest blunder of his career that he had made that to invent this idea of this dark energy when it wasn't needed so how do we actually measure
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Dive with Octopuses and...
he's blundered completely in with his surroundings the life we've encountered and these green seas is supported by a mighty ecosystem that surrounds us now we're about to enter an underwater forest
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
line so we'll see who got it right who got it wrong and he was completely on the wrong side of the world so far we are not having luck with any idiotic wildly beasts blundering in as they do
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Braving a Thunderstorm...
Hollywood movie thus an electrical storm waiting for endangered wolf to blunder out of the darkness surely with lightning clattering round the sky any self-respecting wolf will be curled
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How to green the world's...
And it got worse, not better. Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave. One good thing did come out of it.
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The Most Dramatic...
And blundered straight into the middle of the hyena clan.
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Incredible Animal...
And blundered straight into the middle of the hyena clan.
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
are no stranger to manipulation. We take drugs to shift the chemistries of our brains and to change our moods, and what are arguments or advertising or big ideas if not an attempt to influence someone else's mind? But our attempts at doing this are crude and blundering compared to the fine-grained specificity of the parasites.
Video examples
What game theory teaches...
greatest blunders policy blunders of the 20th century they announced that they had won the game they had won the Cold no they didn't the player dropped out because they ran out of the will or the resources to play and the problem is is because they thought they had won the
Video examples
The greatest TED Talk...
like a bunch of blundering idiots what do you think the response is gonna be I the responses mostly will be no but as the toughest cell because the felmers tough sell because of me both that meaning I'm not so optimistic so can you help me I need help I can
Video examples
Mapping the Unknown,...
saw that the universe was expanding when that was shown to him he then called this the biggest blunder of his career that he had made that to invent this idea of this dark energy when it wasn't needed so how do we actually measure
Video examples
Dive with Octopuses and...
he's blundered completely in with his surroundings the life we've encountered and these green seas is supported by a mighty ecosystem that surrounds us now we're about to enter an underwater forest
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
line so we'll see who got it right who got it wrong and he was completely on the wrong side of the world so far we are not having luck with any idiotic wildly beasts blundering in as they do
Video examples
Braving a Thunderstorm...
Hollywood movie thus an electrical storm waiting for endangered wolf to blunder out of the darkness surely with lightning clattering round the sky any self-respecting wolf will be curled
Video examples
How to green the world's...
And it got worse, not better. Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave. One good thing did come out of it.
Video examples
The Most Dramatic...
And blundered straight into the middle of the hyena clan.
Video examples
Incredible Animal...
And blundered straight into the middle of the hyena clan.
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Flea
Australian Musician
Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.
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Annie Besant
English Philosopher
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
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Jerome K. Jerome
English Author
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.
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Fritz Zwicky
Swiss Scientist
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
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Robert A. Heinlein
American Writer
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.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
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.
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Bradley Chicho
English Poet
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
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Stand Watie
Cherokee Soldier
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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William Shatner
Canadian Actor
I've blundered my way through life.
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Flea
Australian Musician
Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.
Quote examples
Annie Besant
English Philosopher
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
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Jerome K. Jerome
English Author
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.
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Fritz Zwicky
Swiss Scientist
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
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Robert A. Heinlein
American Writer
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.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
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.
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Bradley Chicho
English Poet
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
Quote examples
Stand Watie
Cherokee Soldier
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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William Shatner
Canadian Actor
I've blundered my way through life.
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