Synonyms of brick

brick

noun

ˈbrik 

as in mistake

an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy

he dropped a brick that had his friends helpless with laughter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mistake
• error
• blunder
• clinker
• trip
• stumble
• fumble
• boob
• fluff
• bobble
• inaccuracy
• fault
• slip
• goof
• gaff
• misstep
• miscue
• clanger
• screwup
• flub
• gaffe
• slipup
• lapse
• oversight
• boo-boo
• bloomer
• pratfall
• boner
• misunderstanding
• blooper
• howler
• misconception
• snafu
• misstatement
• misconstruction
• misreading
• misinterpretation
• miscalculation
• misjudgment
• misapprehension
• misdescription
• misimpression
• miscomprehension
• foul-up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• precision
• accuracy
• exactness
• correctness
• strictness
• exactitude
• perfection
• preciseness
• infallibility
• inerrancy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of brick

The following day, investigators recovered the two Renoirs from a house in Clermont-l’Hérault, where they had been concealed behind a false wall constructed from bricks and plasterboard. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

And the old Rapp Saloon — an 1875 brick building at 1436 2nd Street — was reborn in the late 1980s as a meeting space within a four-story hostel, now known as Hostelling International’s HI Los Angeles Santa Monica Hostel. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Kitty-corner from the park is 16th Street Baptist Church, the city's first Black congregation, housed in a thick tan brick building of Romanesque-Byzantine design, which became a center for civil rights meetings. — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026

Families peered out at us suspiciously from curtainless windows in ramshackle brick dwellings. — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026