Synonyms of the word

goof

• n. (US) A mistake or error.
• n. (US) A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
• n. (Canada, prison slang) A child molester.
• v. (US) To make a mistake.
• v. (US) To engage in mischief.

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.

boob

• n. (informal, pejorative) Idiot, fool.
• n. (slang) A breast, especially that of a human adult or adolescent female.
• adj. (informal, pejorative) Idiotic, foolish.
• v. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To make a mistake.

bozo

• n. (slang) A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man.

breach

• n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between…
• n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
• n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
• n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
• n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
• n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
• n. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
• n. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
• n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• v. (transitive) To make a breach in.
• v. (transitive) To violate or break.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
• v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

cuckoo

• adj. Crazy; not sane.
• n. Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species;…
• n. The sound of that particular bird.
• n. The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
• n. Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
• n. Someone who is crazy.
• v. To make the call of a cuckoo.
• v. To repeat something incessantly.

fathead

• n. (derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
• n. (zoology) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
• n. (zoology) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

fool

• n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
• n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
• n. (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
• n. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
• n. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
• v. To trick; to make a fool of someone.
• v. To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

goofball

• n. (informal, often derogatory) A foolish or silly person.
• n. (informal) A pill or tablet containing a pharmaceutical which has hypnotic or intoxicating effects, especially…
• adj. Silly.

goose

• n. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable…
• n. The flesh of the goose used as food.
• n. (slang) A silly person.
• n. (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
• n. (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
• v. (slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating…
• v. To stimulate, to spur.
• v. (slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
• v. (British slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This…

infract

• v. (transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
• adj. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

jackass

• n. A male donkey.
• n. A foolish or stupid person.
• n. An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
• p.n. (poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
• v. (rare) To behave very obnoxiously.

muggins

• n. A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).
• n. (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly.
• n. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of…
• n. A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's…

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

sap

• n. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating…
• n. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
• n. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
• n. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
• v. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
• n. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of…
• v. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
• v. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
• v. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
• v. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

saphead

• n. A simpleton, a stupid person.

sin

• n. (theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.
• n. A misdeed.
• n. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
• n. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
• v. (intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.
• n. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ.
• n. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س.

tomfool

• adj. silly or stupid.
• n. a silly or stupid person.

transgress

• v. (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
• v. (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
• v. (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
• v. (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

twat

• n. (vulgar, slang) The vagina or vulva.
• n. (Britain, New Zealand, sometimes US, offensive, vulgar, slang) A contemptible and stupid person, idiot.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To hit, slap.

violate

• v. (sometimes computing) To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
• v. (euphemistic) To rape.

zany

• adj. Unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.
• adj. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
• n. (obsolete) A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions…
• v. (obsolete) To mimic foolishly.