What is the meaning of fumbling?

verb

• Feel about uncertainly or blindly.
  • usage: "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
  • synonyms: grope, fumble
• Make one's way clumsily or blindly.
  • usage: "He fumbled towards the door"
  • synonyms: fumble, blunder
• Handle clumsily.
  • synonyms: fumble
• Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
  • usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
  • synonyms: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
• Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder.
  • usage: "fumble a grounder"
  • synonyms: fumble

adjective

• Showing lack of skill or aptitude.
  • usage: "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
  • synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent