Dictionary Definition
stumble
Noun
2 an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he
recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his
robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate
misstep" [syn: trip,
trip-up,
misstep]
Verb
2 miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She
stumbled over the tree root" [syn: trip]
3 encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a
long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: hit]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Translations
an error or blunder
Verb
Translations
to trip or fall
- Czech: zakopnout
- Danish: snuble
- Finnish: kompastua, kompuroida
- Portuguese: tropeçar
to make a mistake or have trouble
to find by accident; to happen upon
- Danish: falde over, støde tilfældigt (på)
- Finnish: törmätä, löytää sattumalta
- Portuguese: tropeçar
See also
Extensive Definition
Stumble is Prakash
Belawadi's debut film. It won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English in 2003.
It depicts the new economy,
the dotcom bust, stock market
scams, mutual
funds, and voluntary retirement.
The production team intended Stumble to be a film
for the middle-class.
Ananth
Nag and Suhasini
are in the lead rôles, alongside Priya
Ganapati and Allen
Mandonca. Belawadi found his cast through the theatre world of Bangalore, and
was wholly filmed there . Jesu Domnic and Shyam Nanjundaiah were
Editors for this movie. One of the editors Shyam Nanjundaiah also
played a small part in the film, appearing alongside Ananth Nag for
a brief scene.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
bad job, balk, barge, be all thumbs, bevue, blunder, blunder away, blunder
into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, breakdown, bumble, bump, bump into, bungle, butcher, capsize, careen, career, chance, clump, clumsy performance,
collapse, come a
cropper, come across, come up against, comedown, commit a gaffe,
crash, cropper, culbute, deflation, deviate, discover, dive, downfall, encounter, err, error, etourderie, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall
headlong, fall into error, fall over, fall prostrate, fall upon,
false move, false step, falter, faux pas, find, flop, flounce, flounder, flub, fluff, foozle, forced landing, fumble, gag, gaucherie, get a cropper, go
amiss, go astray, go awry, go wrong, halt, hash, have two minds, haw, header, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hit, hit upon, hum, hum and haw, inadvertence, inadvertency, jib, labor, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus
linguae, light, limp, list, loose thread, luck, lumber, lurch, mammer, mar, meet, mess, miscalculate, miscue, misstep, mistake, muck, muddle, muff, murder, nose dive, off day,
omission, oversight, pause, pitch, pitch and plunge, play
havoc with, plunge,
pose, pratfall, reel, rock, roll, run across, sad work,
scruple, seethe, shy, slip, slip up, slipup, smash, snapper, spill, spoil, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, stammer, stick, stickle, strain, stray, struggle, stump, stutter, sway, swing, tailspin, take a fall, take a
flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, thrash about,
tilt, topple, topple down, topple over,
toss, toss and tumble, toss
and turn, totter,
trip, tumble, turn turtle, volutation, wallop, wallow, wander, waver, welter, wobble, wrong
step