Synonyms of fiascoes

fiascoes

noun

plural of fiasco

as in disasters

something that has failed

undaunted by his early fiascoes, he continued his experiments in rocketry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disasters
• failures
• disappointments
• catastrophes
• bombs
• debacles
• busts
• losers
• shipwrecks
• flops
• washouts
• misses
• frosts
• lemons
• duds
• messes
• clinkers
• bummers
• turkeys
• clunkers
• fizzles
• dogs
• shambles
• hashes
• botches
• has-beens
• near misses
• also-rans
• nonevents
• muddles
• nonstarters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• successes
• hits
• winners
• blockbusters
• phenomena
• smashes
• dandies
• corkers
• crackerjacks
• jim-dandies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fiascoes

Contained within all these fiascoes is a subtly different conservative movement. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026

Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026

So officials will have to stick with tried-and-true absentee-voting techniques, improving them to avoid the fiascoes of the recent past. — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2020