BLUNDERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blunderer mean? 

• BLUNDERER (noun)
  The noun BLUNDERER has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

  Familiarity information: BLUNDERER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUNDERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blunderer; botcher; bumbler; bungler; butcher; fuckup; fumbler; sad sack; stumbler

Hypernyms ("blunderer" is a kind of...):

incompetent; incompetent person (someone who is not competent to take effective action)

Derivation:

blunder (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake)

 Context examples 

A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Bench was nothing to me but an insensible blunderer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)