Antonyms for goof up
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : goof |
| Phonetic Transcription : guf |
- accomplish
- accuracy
- achieve
- achievement
- advantage
- arrange
- behavior
- benefit
- break
- build
- care
- clear up
- continuity
- correct
- correction
- create
- do well
- enlighten
- explain
- fix
- grow
- handle
- help
- honor
- kindness
- manage
- obedience
- order
- organization
- organize
- perfection
- progress
- remembrance
- repair
- respect
- right
- strength
- succeed
- success
- tidy
- understanding
Definition of goof up
Origin :- "waste time," 1932; "make a mistake," 1941, from goof (n.). Goof off "loaf" is also from 1941. Related: Goofed; goofing.
- As in lapse : noun mistake
- As in snafu : noun mistake
- As in boner : noun a mistake
- As in mess up : verb disorder, dirty
- As in mishandle/mismanage : verb mess up
- As in muff : verb bungle
- As in screw up : verb make a mess of
- As in botch : verb blunder
- As in mishandle : verb bobble
- As in bungle : verb blunder, mess up
- As in butcher : verb ruin
- As in gum up : verb botch
- As in louse up : verb botch
- What kind of psionic force would it take to make so many people in the United States goof up the way they were doing?
- Extract from : « Occasion for Disaster » by Gordon Randall Garrett
Synonyms for goof up
- abuse
- ball up
- be incompetent
- be inefficient
- befoul
- besmirch
- blooper
- blow
- blunder
- bobble
- boggle
- bollix
- bollix up
- bonehead play
- boo-boo
- boot
- botch
- breach
- bumble
- bungle
- butcher
- choke
- clutter
- confound
- confuse
- confusion
- crime
- damage
- derange
- destroy
- disarrange
- discompose
- dishevel
- disorganize
- distort
- disturb
- drop the ball
- err
- error
- failing
- failure
- fall down
- false move
- false step
- fault
- faux pas
- flounder
- flub
- flummox
- foible
- foul
- foul up
- foul-up
- foulup
- frailty
- fudge
- fumble
- gaff
- gaffe
- goof
- goof up
- goof-up
- gum up
- harm
- indiscretion
- jumble
- litter
- louse
- louse up
- make a hash of
- make a mess of
- make a muck of
- make hash of
- maladminister
- mar
- mend
- mess
- mess up
- misapply
- miscalculate
- miscalculation
- miscompute
- misconduct
- misconjectu
- misconjecture
- misconstrue
- miscue
- misdirect
- misemploy
- misgovern
- mishandle
- misjudge
- misjudgment
- mismanage
- mismanager
- misstep
- mistreat
- misunderstanding
- misuse
- mix-up
- muck up
- muddle
- muff
- mutilate
- negligence
- offense
- omission
- overlook
- oversight
- patch
- pervert
- pollute
- prostitute
- pull a boner
- put foot in
- queer
- ruin
- rummage
- scramble
- screw up
- screw-up
- screwup
- shoot oneself in foot
- sin
- slip
- slip-up
- slipup
- smear
- snafu
- soil
- spoil
- stumble
- transgression
- trespass
- trip
- unsettle
- upset
- vice
- violation
- whoops
- wreck
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