Adjective: bunglesome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bunglesome |
| Superlative | most bunglesome |
Sample Sentences
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They were quite bunglesome working together initially, and she didn't understand why. Sometimes she felt uncomfortable. [2008, Ericka Courtney, The Gentle Rapist:]
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Furthermore, though there are those who complain of official France, the bunglesome administration, the interminable red tape, I was not one of those who suffered any great inconvenience from these obstacles to progress. [2012, Burris Jenkins, Facing The Hindenburg Line:]
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These combined odours somewhat dispersed Dan's gloom when he came back in squeaky Sunday shoes and a bunglesome cut-away coat. [2013, Willa Cather, One of Ours:]
Adjectives inflected like bunglesome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English bungle
3. Proto-Indo-European *sem-
4. Proto-Indo-European *somHós
5. Proto-Germanic *samaz
6. Proto-Germanic *-samaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *-sam
8. Old English -sum
9. Middle English -som
10. English -some
11. English bunglesome
12. From bungle + -some.