Synonyms for Floundering:

adj.
• maladroit
- clunky
- two left feet
- clunkier
- clunkiest
- heavy handed
- heavyhanded
• awkward
- green
- in expert
- in-expert
- more blundering
- more butterfingers
- more floundering
- more stumbling
- most blundering
- most butterfingers
- most floundering
- most stumbling
- oafish
- stumbling
- un coordinated
- un couth
- un fit
- un gainlier
- un gainliest
- un gainly
- un graceful
- un handier
- un handiest
- un handy
- un polished
- un refined
- un skilled
- un skillful
- un-coordinated
- un-couth
- un-fit
- un-gainlier
- un-gainliest
- un-gainly
- un-graceful
- un-handier
- un-handiest
- un-handy
- un-polished
- un-refined
- un-skilled
- un-skillful
- unhandier
- unhandiest
• doddering
- in firmer
- in firmest
- in-firm
- in-firmer
- in-firmest
- more anile
- more dotard
- more faltering
- more trembling
- most anile
- most dotard
- most faltering
- most trembling
- shaky
- un steadier
- un steadiest
- un steady
- un-steadier
- un-steadiest
- un-steady
- unsteadiest
- unsteady
• incompetent
- bushleague
- dis qualified
- dis-qualified
- in adequate
- in capable
- in competent
- in effectual
- in efficient
- in eligible
- in experienced
- in-adequate
- in-capable
- in-competent
- in-effectual
- in-efficient
- in-eligible
- in-experienced
- in-sufficient
- more amateur
- more disqualified
- more unadapted
- more unequipped
- more unfitted
- more unproficient
- most amateur
- most disqualified
- most unadapted
- most unequipped
- most unfitted
- most unproficient
- out lunch
- un adapted
- un equipped
- un fitted
- un initiated
- un proficient
- un qualified
- un trained
- un-adapted
- un-equipped
- un-fitted
- un-initiated
- un-proficient
- un-qualified
- un-trained
• klutzy
- lumpish
• lashing
- more beating
- most beating
v.
• failing
- Blundering
- Collapsing
- Flopping
- Flunking
- busting
- failing
- falling
- faltering
- losing
Other relevant words:

• embarrassed

ashamed

• incapable

incompetent

• Other relevant words (adjective):

What are the hypernyms for Floundering?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
bumbling, foundering, fumbling, lumbering, meandering, measuring, staggering, struggling, Battling, Languishing, Reeling.

Usage examples for Floundering

Should the huge animal not be got out, the water would be spoiled; at all events, his Floundering about would make it very muddy.

"Stories of Animal Sagacity"

W.H.G. Kingston

William showed such visible signs of Floundering that Katharine collected herself and asked: "Where is the cottage you've taken?"

"Night and Day"

Virginia Woolf

At another time I found a single bird Floundering about with a big lump of ice and mud attached to his tail.

"Ways of Wood Folk"

William J. Long

Famous quotes with Floundering

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet

Ted Hughes

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