Synonyms of the word

blooper

• n. (informal) An error.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
• n. (informal) A film or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing mistake and/or accident during the…
• n. (nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.

bloomer

• n. An ironworker.
• n. A circular loaf of white bread.
• n. A blooming flower.
• n. One who blooms, matures, or develops.
• n. (historical) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the…
• n. (historical) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.

blunder

• n. A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
• v. (transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

boner

• n. (literally) One who or that which bones (removes bones).
• n. (dated, baseball, slang) A blunder; a silly mistake.
• n. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

boo-boo

• n. (countable, colloquial, often childish) A mistake or error.
• n. (countable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) Feces.
• v. (colloquial, childish, by or to young children) To defecate.

botch

• v. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something;…
• v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
• v. To repair or mend clumsily.
• n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
• n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
• n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
• n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
• n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
• n. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
• n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

bungle

• n. A botched or incompetently handled situation.
• v. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

error

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
• n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
• n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
• n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
• n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
• n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
• v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
• v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• v. (nonstandard) To err.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

flub

• n. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
• v. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

foul-up

• n. A disastrous mistake.

fuckup

• n. (vulgar) A serious mistake.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) One who continually makes mistakes.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) An ineffective person.

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

pratfall

• n. A fall onto the buttocks.
• n. A humiliating mistake.
• n. A staged trip or fall, often for comedic purposes.
• v. To fall on to the buttocks.