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BLUN'DER, v.i. [This word seems to be allied to the Gr.,to err, and to flounder. The sense of the latter is to move with sudden jerks, and irregular motions.]

1. To mistake grossly; to err widely or stupidly.

2. To move without direction, or steady guidance; to plunge at an object; to move, speak or write with sudden and blind precipitance; as, to blunder upon a reason; to blunder round a meaning.

3. To stumble, as a horse; a common use of the word.

BLUN'DER, n. A mistake through precipitance, or without due exercise of judgment; a gross mistake.




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BLUN'DER, v.i. [This word seems to be allied to the Gr.,to err, and to flounder. The sense of the latter is to move with sudden jerks, and irregular motions.]

1. To mistake grossly; to err widely or stupidly.

2. To move without direction, or steady guidance; to plunge at an object; to move, speak or write with sudden and blind precipitance; as, to blunder upon a reason; to blunder round a meaning.

3. To stumble, as a horse; a common use of the word.

BLUN'DER, n. A mistake through precipitance, or without due exercise of judgment; a gross mistake.


BLUN'DER, n.

A mistake through precipitance, or without due exercise of judgment; a gross mistake.


BLUN'DER, v.i. [This word seems to be allied to the Gr. πλαναω, to err; and to flounder. The sense of the latter is to move with sudden jerks, and irregular motions. In Dan. blunder is to wink, twinkle or dissemble; allied to Fr. loin.]

  1. To mistake grossly; to err widely or stupidly. – Johnson.
  2. To move without direction, or steady guidance; to plunge at an object; to move, speak or write with sudden and blind precipitance; as, to blunder upon a reason; to blunder round a meaning. – Pope.
  3. To stumble, as a horse; a common use of word.

Blun"der
  1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

    Swift.
  2. To cause to blunder.

    [Obs.] "To blunder an adversary." Ditton.
  3. Confusion; disturbance.

    [Obs.]
  4. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.

    I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
    Goldsmith.

    Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place,
    And blunders on, and staggers every pace.
    Dryden.

    To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

  5. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

    He blunders and confounds all these together.
    Stillingfleet.

  6. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

    Syn. -- Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas.

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Blunder

BLUN'DER, verb intransitive [This word seems to be allied to the Gr., to err, and to flounder. The sense of the latter is to move with sudden jerks, and irregular motions.]

1. To mistake grossly; to err widely or stupidly.

2. To move without direction, or steady guidance; to plunge at an object; to move, speak or write with sudden and blind precipitance; as, to blunder upon a reason; to blunder round a meaning.

3. To stumble, as a horse; a common use of the word.

BLUN'DER, noun A mistake through precipitance, or without due exercise of judgment; a gross mistake.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

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