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screwups

noun , plural of screwup

Synonyms and Antonyms of screwups

1 an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy

clearly, there's been some sort of screwup about what time we were supposed to meet

Synonyms of screwups

blunders, bobbles, boo-boos, boobs [British], bricks, clangers [British], clinkers, errors, faults, flubs, fluffs, fumbles, gaffs, gaffes, goofs, inaccuracies, lapses, miscues, missteps, mistakes, oversights, slips, slipups, stumbles, trips

Words Related to screwups

bloomers, bloopers, boners, howlers, pratfalls

foul-ups, snafus

misapprehensions, miscalculations, miscomprehensions, misconceptions, misconstructions, miscues, misdescriptions, misimpressions, misinterpretations, misjudgments, misreadings, misstatements, misunderstandings

Near Antonyms of screwups

accuracies, exactitudes, precisions

inerrancies, infallibilities, perfections

2 someone who bungles an effort

don't ask the office screwup to arrange the holiday party

Synonyms of screwups

blunderbusses, blunderers, botchers, bumblers, bunglers, butchers, fumblers

Words Related to screwups

incompetents, muddlers

Near Antonyms of screwups

aces, adepts, crackerjacks (also crackajacks), experts, maestros (or maestri), masters, virtuosos (or virtuosi), wizards

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