| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Blunder.[Websters]
2. To have oversighted or neglected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be bungled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be botched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have missed, bugged or fluffed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be blemished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have stumbled or staggered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be abortioned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have flawed or defaulted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be humoured.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb blunder.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (blunder) | 1. Make one's way clumsily or blindly.[Wordnet]. 2. Utter impulsively; "He blundered his stupid ideas".[Wordnet]. 3. Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview".[Wordnet]. 4. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.[Websters]. 5. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.[Websters]. 6. To cause to blunder.[Websters]. 7. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: blundering, blundered, blunders, blunderer, blunderers, blunderingly and blunderedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BLUNDERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Specialty Definition: blunder
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Aerospace | An aviation occurrence that is totally unexpected by an air traffic controller and leads to potentially unsafe results, such as a pilot navigating an approach to the wrong runway. (references) | ||
| Environment | A mistake. A blunder is not an error, though a small blunder may remain undetected in a series of observations and have the effect of an error in determining a result. Examples of blunders are reading a horizontal circle incorrectly by an even degree, neglecting to record a tape length in a measured transverse, and reversing numerals in recording an observation. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: blunder
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Blunder out | Utter impulsively. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hopetoun Blunder | The Hopetoun Blunder was a political and constitutional crisis immediately prior to the Federation of the British colonies in Australia. (references) | ||
| The Blunder Years | The Blunder Years is an episode from The Simpsons 13th season. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: blunder | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Blunder | 113 | A Frightful Blunder | 5 | |
| Blunder (chess) | 92 | Blunder | 113 | |
| The Blunder Years | 11 | Blunder (chess) | 92 | |
| Blunder (TV series) | 9 | Blunder (TV series) | 9 | |
| Brand blunder | 8 | Blunder Boys | 7 | |
| Draft blunder | 7 | Brand blunder | 8 | |
| Blunder Boys | 7 | Draft blunder | 7 | |
| Himalayan Blunder | 6 | Himalayan Blunder | 6 | |
| A Frightful Blunder | 5 | Hopetoun Blunder | 5 | |
| Hopetoun Blunder | 5 | The Blunder Years | 11 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
