blundersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Apt or prone to cause blunders; troublesome; difficult; problematic.
adj
Characterised or marked by blunders or mistakes; messed-up.
Example Sentences
- "The disciples were proud, blundersome, quick tempered, forgetful, easily provoked to jealousy, sensitive, and often given to discouragement; but Jesus never condemned or scolded them."
- "Laborious experiment to discover the facts about our environment is wearisome to all but a persistent few. Surely all this blundersome experimenting can be by-passed by some more direct route to the heart of nature?"
- "He had serious doubts that the person behind it, which he assumed was Varik, would be so crass and blundersome if he wanted to seriously threaten Marcus' existence."
- "She could not scold the Idiot whatever blundersome thing he did; her compassion for him was limitless to encompass his lack of intelligence."
- "We open with the girl, born premature and blundersome (asthmatic, pigeon-toes, a crooked nose)—hardly the cynosure her genes could've produced."
Etymology
Etymology tree English blunder Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English blundersome From blunder + -some.
Inflected Forms
more blundersome (comparative)
most blundersome (superlative)