All floundering synonyms
floun·der
F f adjective floundering
- dotard — a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak-minded or foolish old person.
- unhandy — not skillful in manual work: He's unhandy when it comes to fixing things around the house.
- klutzy — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- motiveless — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- clunky — If you describe something as clunky, you mean that it is solid, heavy, and rather awkward.
- out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- all thumbs — clumsy
- purposeless — having no purpose or apparent meaning.
- unhelpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- undirected — not directed; not guided: He wasted his time on undirected activity.
- unequipped — to furnish or provide with whatever is needed for use or for any undertaking; fit out, as a ship or army: They spent several thousand dollars to equip their boat.
- unfitted — made so as to follow closely the contours of a form or shape: fitted clothes; fitted sheets.
- incompetent — not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
- adapt — If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully.
- doddering — shaky or trembling, as from old age; tottering: a doddering old man.
- uncalled for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- anile — of or like a feeble old woman
- lashing — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- designless — without a design, unplanned
- unpurposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- goalless — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- purport — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.