Word.ws English Dictionary

muddling through

muddling through is the present participle and gerund of muddle through.

Meaning of muddle through

Verb

muddle through (third-person singular simple present muddles through, present participle muddling through, simple past and past participle muddled through)

  1. (ambitransitive) To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained.
    • I’ve only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.

Questions about muddling through

What is muddling through the present participle and gerund of?
Muddling through is the present participle and gerund of muddle through.

Words near muddling through in the dictionary

  1. muddlesome
  2. muddliness
  3. muddling
  4. muddling along
  5. muddling the waters
  6. muddling through
  7. muddling up
  8. muddlingly
  9. muddlings
  10. muddly
  11. Muddock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: muddling through (page history and authors); muddle through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “muddling through.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/muddling_through. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.