FLOUNDERING Synonyms

• showing lack of skill or aptitude

• lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

• disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably

• a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior

• a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused

• an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended

• a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another

• the act of pausing uncertainly

• unsteady in speech or action

• showing lack of skill or aptitude

• indecision in speech or action

• a certain degree of unwillingness

• the act of pausing uncertainly

• doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action

• the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose

• the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively

• engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

• an embarrassing mistake

• commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

• make one's way clumsily or blindly

• utter impulsively

• a confused multitude of things

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• make into a puddle

• mix up or confuse

• an unsteady uneven gait

• an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

• walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly

• miss a step and fall or nearly fall

• encounter by chance

• make an error

• an unsteady uneven gait

• walk as if unable to control one's movements

• walk with great difficulty

• to arrange in a systematic order

• astound or overwhelm, as with shock