Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fuck_up
2 senses of fuckup
Sense 1
bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup -- (someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence)
=> incompetent, incompetent person -- (someone who is not competent to take effective action)
Sense 2
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo -- (an embarrassing mistake)
=> mistake, error, fault -- (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fuck_up
1 sense of fuck up
Sense 1
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up -- (make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement")
=> fail, go wrong, miscarry -- (be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably")