"blundersome" meaning in All languages combined

See blundersome on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more blundersome [comparative], most blundersome [superlative]
Etymology: From blunder + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|blunder|some}} blunder + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} blundersome (comparative more blundersome, superlative most blundersome)
  1. Apt or prone to cause blunders; troublesome; difficult; problematic. Synonyms: blunderful, blunderous, blundery
    Sense id: en-blundersome-en-adj-ENjZ6F5x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -some: 80 20
  2. Characterised or marked by blunders or mistakes; messed-up. Synonyms: blundery
    Sense id: en-blundersome-en-adj-JR05KgEB

Download JSON data for blundersome meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "blunder",
        "3": "some"
      },
      "expansion": "blunder + -some",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From blunder + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more blundersome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most blundersome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "blundersome (comparative more blundersome, superlative most blundersome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -some",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Edward John Carnell, A Philosophy of the Christian Religion - Page 436",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Eric Temple Bell, The Magic of Numbers - Page 76",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Al K. Line, Orientation: The Commorancy Book 1 - Page 215",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Apt or prone to cause blunders; troublesome; difficult; problematic."
      ],
      "id": "en-blundersome-en-adj-ENjZ6F5x",
      "links": [
        [
          "blunder",
          "blunder"
        ],
        [
          "troublesome",
          "troublesome"
        ],
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "problematic",
          "problematic"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blunderful"
        },
        {
          "word": "blunderous"
        },
        {
          "word": "blundery"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Byron Herbert Reece, Better a Dinner of Herbs - Page 181",
          "text": "She could not scold the Idiot whatever blundersome thing he did; her compassion for him was limitless to encompass his lack of intelligence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Caki Wilkinson, Circles where the Head Should be: Poems - Page 21",
          "text": "We open with the girl, born premature and blundersome (asthmatic, pigeon-toes, a crooked nose)—hardly the cynosure her genes could've produced.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterised or marked by blunders or mistakes; messed-up."
      ],
      "id": "en-blundersome-en-adj-JR05KgEB",
      "links": [
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "messed-up",
          "messed-up"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blundery"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blundersome"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -some"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "blunder",
        "3": "some"
      },
      "expansion": "blunder + -some",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From blunder + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more blundersome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most blundersome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "blundersome (comparative more blundersome, superlative most blundersome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Edward John Carnell, A Philosophy of the Christian Religion - Page 436",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Eric Temple Bell, The Magic of Numbers - Page 76",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Al K. Line, Orientation: The Commorancy Book 1 - Page 215",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Apt or prone to cause blunders; troublesome; difficult; problematic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blunder",
          "blunder"
        ],
        [
          "troublesome",
          "troublesome"
        ],
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "problematic",
          "problematic"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blunderful"
        },
        {
          "word": "blunderous"
        },
        {
          "word": "blundery"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Byron Herbert Reece, Better a Dinner of Herbs - Page 181",
          "text": "She could not scold the Idiot whatever blundersome thing he did; her compassion for him was limitless to encompass his lack of intelligence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Caki Wilkinson, Circles where the Head Should be: Poems - Page 21",
          "text": "We open with the girl, born premature and blundersome (asthmatic, pigeon-toes, a crooked nose)—hardly the cynosure her genes could've produced.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterised or marked by blunders or mistakes; messed-up."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "messed-up",
          "messed-up"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blundery"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blundersome"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.