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flounder

[floun-der] / ˈflaʊn dər /
VERB
struggle; be in the dark
Synonyms
STRONGEST
flop stumble wallow
STRONG
blunder bobble flummox fumble grope labor lurch muddle plunge pratfall snafu strive thrash toil toss travail tumble
WEAK
cast about come apart at the seams drop the ball fall down foul up go at backwards go to pieces make a mess of miss one's cue screw up slip up stub one's toe trip up work at
Antonyms
STRONG
idle laze
WEAK
do well succeed

Example Sentences

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Or, with no party organisation behind him, he could flounder.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Doncic looks like an MVP in purple and gold, while the Mavericks flounder in the cellar of the Western Conference.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

I still rewatch Hasan doing what he does best, and I admire him—because in that chair I’d probably flounder and set our people back a decade.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2025

It’s important that we can speak to why we are not serving flounder and have speckled sea trout instead.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2024

I caught lots of small fish, mackerel and pollock and cod and flounder, and cleaned ’em, too.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.