All goof up synonyms
goof up
G g verb goof up
- blunder β A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
- mess up β a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- botch β If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
- bumble β to speak or do in a clumsy, muddled, or inefficient way
- screw up β a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- miscalculate β Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- flub β a blunder.
- misjudge β Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
- mismanage β Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
- muff β sheet glass made from a blown cylinder (muff) that is split and flattened.
- fumble β to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- mishandle β to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- bungle β If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
- bobble β A bobble is a small ball of material, usually made of wool, which is used for decorating clothes.
- botch β If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
- fudge β a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
- blow β When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- mess β a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- boot β Boots are shoes that cover your whole foot and the lower part of your leg.
- muddle β to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- butcher β A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- patch β Alexander McCarrell [muh-kar-uh l] /mΙΛkΓ¦r Ιl/ (Show IPA), 1889β1945, U.S. World War II general.
- flounder β to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- misapply β to make a wrong application or use of.
- mend β to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- mutilate β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- boggle β If you say that the mind boggles at something or that something boggles the mind, you mean that it is so strange or amazing that it is difficult to imagine or understand.
- stumble β to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- misconstrue β to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- bollix β to make a muddle of; bungle; botch
noun goof up
- offense β a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
- failing β Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
- negligence β the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
- violation β the act of violating.
- fault β a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- indiscretion β lack of discretion; imprudence.
- omission β the act of omitting.
- failure β an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
- transgression β an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc.; sin.
- breach β If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
- crime β A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
- sin β the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- misunderstanding β failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
- mix-up β a confused state of things; muddle; tangle.
- foul-up β a condition of difficulty or disorder brought on by inefficiency, stupidity, etc.