What is another word for goof?
Pronunciation:
[ ɡˈuːf], [ ɡˈuːf], [ ɡ_ˈuː_f]
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Similar words for goof:
- blunder (noun)
- boob (noun)
- boo boo (noun)
- bozo (noun)
- bungler (noun)
- cuckoo (noun)
- dunce (noun)
- error (noun)
- faux pas (noun)
- goof (noun)
- impropriety (noun)
- impudency (noun)
- inappropriateness (noun)
- indelicacy (noun)
- indiscretion (noun)
- lapse (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- schlemiel (noun)
- screwball (noun)
- unbecomingness (noun)
- unfitness (noun)
- unseemliness (noun)
- unsuitability (noun)
- unsuitableness (noun)
- blow (verb)
- err (verb)
- fumble (verb)
- goof (verb)
- make a mistake (verb)
- mishandle (verb)
- mishandle/mismanage (verb)
- mistake (verb)
- screw up (verb)
- slip (verb)
- other synonyms
- blow
- err
- mishandle
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Goof:
n.
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- maniac,
- joker,
- numpty,
- dumb blond.
- bozo.
- clown,
- dolt,
- fumbler,
- butter-fingers,
- yokel,
- blockhead,
- blunder-head,
- bumbler,
- botcher,
- oaf,
- bungler,
- bonehead,
- clod,
- clodhopper.
- dullard,
- dope,
- idiot,
- ignoramus,
- twit,
- numskull,
- buffoon,
- ass,
- dimwit,
- donkey,
- lightweight,
- pinhead.
- slipup,
- miscalculation,
- misunderstanding,
- untruth,
- XS,
- misdeed,
- omission,
- mismanagement,
- bad job,
- falsehood,
- erratum,
- transgression,
- screamer,
- screamers,
- Misjudgment,
- fallacy,
- X,
- misconception,
- slight,
- Misbelief,
- miscue,
- deviation,
- glitch,
- errors,
- offense,
- delinquency,
- failure,
- delusion,
- absurdity,
- falsity,
- wrongdoing.
- flop,
- gaucherie,
- gaucheries,
- blunder in etiquette,
- foulup,
- misconduct,
- break,
- mess,
- breach,
- foul-up,
- mess-up,
- mess-ups,
- social blunder,
- indecorum,
- colossal blunder,
- hash.
- improperness,
- impudence,
- immodesties,
- vulgarism,
- rudeness,
- indecency,
- immodesty,
- incorrectness,
- barbarism,
- inelegance,
- unfitness,
- unsuitability,
- Inelegances,
- incongruity,
- vulgarity,
- inappropriateness.
- pre sumptuousness,
- dis-respects,
- over-confidences,
- dis courtesies,
- dis-courtesies,
- over confidence,
- pre-sumptuousnesses,
- in civilities,
- dis respect,
- over confidences,
- in civility,
- dis-respect,
- in-civility,
- dis respects,
- pre sumptuousnesses,
- dis-courtesy,
- dis courtesy,
- in-civilities,
- pre-sumptuousness.
- ingenuousness,
- simple mindedness,
- recklessness,
- hastiness,
- crudeness,
- fool mistake,
- excitability,
- Misspeak,
- indiscreetness,
- misspeaks,
- simple-mindedness,
- dropping the ball,
- tactlessness,
- simplemindedness,
- slip of tongue.
- indiscretion,
- lamebrains,
- knuckleheads,
- boob,
- error,
- dumb thing to do,
- schnook,
- screw-up,
- birdbrain,
- lame-brains,
- howler,
- scatterbrain,
- screwball,
- goof-up,
- birdbrains,
- halfwit,
- schnooks,
- boo-boos,
- unseemliness,
- slip-ups,
- lightweights,
- lame-brain,
- booboos,
- dunderhead,
- scatterbrains,
- knucklehead,
- booboo,
- boo-boo,
- howlers,
- boo boo,
- indelicacy,
- flub-up,
- gaffe,
- dunderheads,
- schlemiel,
- slip-up,
- goof ball,
- muff,
- gaff,
- Impudency,
- bloomer,
- over-confidence,
- half-wit,
- blunder,
- dumb move,
- lapse,
- dorks,
- dork,
- unbecomingness,
- impropriety,
- gaffs,
- lamebrain,
- moron.
v.
• blow (verb) • err (verb)- be inaccurate,
- misconstrue,
- slip,
- trip,
- make a mess of,
- offend,
- stray,
- sin,
- be incorrect,
- misapprehend,
- fall,
- trespass,
- stumble,
- be in error,
- go astray,
- mar,
- drop the ball,
- misestimate,
- transgress,
- snarl up,
- misjudge,
- deviate,
- miscalculate,
- be mistaken,
- snafu,
- botch,
- go wrong,
- bungle,
- bollix,
- misbehave,
- wander.
- mis stepped,
- mis estimates,
- mis stepping,
- misstepped,
- mis-estimated,
- mis-estimating,
- mis-stepping,
- mis-understands,
- mis estimated,
- mis estimating,
- mis-estimates,
- misstepping,
- mis-stepped,
- mis estimate,
- mis-understand,
- mis understands,
- mis understand,
- mis-estimate,
- mis understood,
- blowing it.
- mis-manager,
- mismanagering,
- mis handle,
- mis-managers,
- mis managers,
- mis-handle,
- mismanagered,
- mis manager.
- mis directs,
- puts foot in,
- mis manage,
- mis-governs,
- shooting foot,
- is incompetent,
- putting foot in,
- shoot oneself foot,
- shot foot,
- mis governing,
- maladministered,
- wast inefficient,
- mis directed,
- was incompetent,
- mis applies,
- mis-manage,
- over looked,
- mis handling,
- mis-handles,
- shooting in foot,
- mis-governed,
- made hash of,
- mis handles,
- shoots foot,
- mis-employs,
- wast incompetent,
- mis-treated,
- mis-governing,
- mis-directing,
- mis manages,
- shoot in foot,
- mis managing,
- mis governed,
- mis-treating,
- mis direct,
- shoots oneself foot,
- mis-applying,
- over looks,
- mis-handled,
- mis treated,
- over-look,
- mis-treat,
- mis-manages,
- mis conducted,
- mis-employ,
- mis conducting,
- mis-employed,
- mis-handling,
- mis-treats,
- shooting oneself foot,
- mis-govern,
- shot in foot,
- mis-applies,
- mis-using,
- mis employed,
- made a hash of,
- misemployed,
- were incompetent,
- mis-employing,
- shoot foot,
- was inefficient,
- are incompetent,
- maladministering,
- goofing up,
- wert inefficient,
- art inefficient,
- mis used,
- mis-managing,
- mis employ,
- mis handled,
- shoots in foot,
- makes a hash of,
- goofed up,
- mis-applied,
- misemploys,
- mis-conducting,
- are inefficient,
- mis treat,
- shot oneself in foot,
- making hash of,
- mis directing,
- mis-used,
- mis apply,
- is inefficient,
- wert incompetent,
- over-looks,
- mis employs,
- were inefficient,
- making a hash of,
- makes hash of,
- goofs up,
- mis treating,
- art incompetent,
- mis governs,
- mis govern,
- mis applied,
- mis-directs,
- misgoverns,
- misemploying,
- mis-conducted,
- mis-directed,
- being inefficient,
- mis-managed,
- mis managed,
- mis-apply,
- mis applying,
- mis employing,
- mis using,
- shooting oneself in foot,
- over look,
- being incompetent,
- mis treats,
- shot oneself foot,
- shoots oneself in foot,
- over-looking,
- maladministers,
- mis-direct.
- mis conceives,
- being off mark,
- wast off the mark,
- mis-interpreted,
- mis conceived,
- be off mark,
- mis-conceive,
- were mark,
- is wrong,
- mis-construed,
- taking for,
- mis-conceives,
- mis read,
- being off the mark,
- mis-deeming,
- mis knowing,
- wert mark,
- hath wrong impression,
- is the mark,
- mis-taken,
- mis know,
- over estimated,
- mis take,
- wast wrong,
- mis-conceived,
- mis-interprets,
- mis reads,
- has wrong impression,
- takes for,
- mis-construing,
- misses the boat,
- mis-deemed,
- mis known,
- mis conceive,
- mis interpreted,
- made mess,
- wert off the mark,
- mis deemed,
- makes a mess,
- mis-took,
- mis interprets,
- mis-construe,
- mis-known,
- misdeeming,
- over estimating,
- gets wrong,
- mis counting,
- is off the mark,
- misdeemed,
- mis-takes,
- being the mark,
- mis-counted,
- gotten wrong,
- misdeems,
- mis-read,
- mis knows,
- am off the mark,
- under-estimating,
- mis knew,
- was off the mark,
- misknows,
- took for,
- not knows,
- mis-take,
- over-estimating,
- over-estimated,
- mis construed,
- mis-reading,
- mis-counting,
- mis construe,
- misknew,
- was off mark,
- art wrong,
- were off mark,
- be mark,
- mis-know,
- deceived oneself,
- missed boat,
- made a mess,
- missing boat,
- mis taking,
- under estimate,
- were off the mark,
- hadst wrong impression,
- are off the mark,
- mis took,
- getting wrong,
- making a mess,
- mis-knows,
- mis deem,
- being mark,
- mis reading,
- over estimates,
- mis taken,
- misses boat,
- was wrong,
- art mark,
- mis-conceiving,
- mis interpret,
- are wrong,
- over estimate,
- mis-reads,
- mis-knew,
- wast mark,
- mis deeming,
- misknown,
- mis-knowing,
- under estimates,
- mis deems,
- am mark,
- mis counted,
- deceives oneself,
- be the mark,
- mis-deem,
- hast wrong impression,
- is off mark,
- was the mark,
- not knew,
- having wrong impression,
- wert off mark,
- mis-deems,
- wast off mark,
- am the mark,
- being wrong,
- mis conceiving,
- had wrong impression,
- wert the mark,
- mis construes,
- mis interpreting,
- am off mark,
- makes mess,
- mis takes,
- were wrong,
- wast the mark,
- art the mark,
- miss boat,
- were the mark,
- under-estimated,
- under estimating,
- mis-taking,
- missing the boat,
- am wrong,
- over-estimates,
- mis-interpret,
- under estimated,
- mis construing,
- wert wrong,
- gat wrong,
- are the mark,
- mis-counts,
- deceiving oneself,
- is mark,
- was mark,
- mis-construes,
- got wrong,
- making mess,
- under-estimate,
- mis counts,
- mis-interpreting,
- misknowing,
- haddest wrong impression.
Other synonyms:
• blow • err- slipping up,
- slips up,
- went astray,
- snafued,
- goes wrong,
- dropped the ball,
- slipped up,
- bollixed,
- Transgressed,
- goes astray,
- going astray,
- going wrong,
- was mistaken,
- flubbed,
- snarled up,
- bollixing.
- Misemploy,
- Misconstrued,
- bobbling,
- get wrong,
- misfield,
- be wrong,
- queering,
- fumbling,
- scrabbles,
- misdirected,
- Misdeem,
- mucked up,
- blow,
- overestimates,
- take for,
- err,
- Misknow,
- bobbled,
- put foot in mouth,
- muck up,
- scrabble,
- misdirects,
- lousing,
- overestimated,
- under-estimates,
- make a mistake,
- fluffing,
- misdirecting,
- misgovern,
- make mess,
- misdirect,
- shoot oneself in foot,
- lose the handle,
- Misgoverned,
- maladminister,
- goof up,
- blows it,
- misinterpret,
- fumble,
- misconceive,
- Not know,
- Scrabbling,
- blew it,
- mistake,
- miss the boat,
- deceive oneself,
- missed the boat,
- miscounted,
- misconducted,
- blow it,
- make a mess,
- queered,
- Messed,
- put foot in,
- overestimating,
- fluffed,
- screw up,
- overestimate,
- Scrabbled,
- slipping,
- have wrong impression,
- not knowing,
- Misapplied,
- misgoverning,
- be off the mark,
- be inefficient,
- make hash of,
- misconducting,
- Messing,
- make mistake,
- be incompetent,
- putting foot in mouth,
- bobbles,
- over-estimate,
- bobble,
- make a hash of,
- miscount,
- Slipped,
- loused,
- queers,
- miscounting.
- undue,
- bugger,
- totter,
- pratfall,
- geezer,
- literal,
- overstep,
- saphead,
- violation,
- chowderhead,
- mutt,
- scandalize,
- prat,
- incorrect,
- foul,
- immoderate,
- asshole,
- fizzle,
- potter,
- Noddy,
- folly,
- score,
- disobey,
- infringe,
- woodenhead,
- fallacious,
- schlub,
- hick,
- pass,
- peccadillo,
- excessive,
- misjudgement,
- preposterous,
- treacherous,
- yahoo,
- lapsus,
- dumbhead,
- goofball,
- crafty,
- flat,
- hash up,
- boot,
- childish,
- illusory,
- trip up,
- dum-dum,
- gum up,
- dishonest,
- pussy,
- nut,
- false,
- unfounded,
- booby,
- puss,
- lump,
- Ninnyhammer,
- foolish,
- dampen,
- slob,
- Hardhead,
- golem,
- cat,
- typographical error,
- bad move,
- doodle,
- muffer,
- erratic,
- shortcoming,
- hollow,
- bubblehead,
- contravene,
- foozler,
- butterfingers,
- cunt,
- unreal,
- jackass,
- dub,
- loon,
- bitch,
- goon,
- bonehead play,
- dillydally,
- jack,
- lummox,
- Sawney,
- jerk-off,
- crevice,
- lunkhead,
- ridiculous,
- stumblebum,
- merry-andrew,
- deceitful,
- ratbag,
- sap,
- vacant,
- wobble,
- rube,
- dingdong,
- infraction,
- go against,
- yo-yo,
- chump,
- clumsy,
- nit,
- HIT,
- klutz,
- brick,
- flunk,
- prize sap,
- dummkopf,
- untrue,
- violate,
- dumb trick,
- absurd,
- boggle,
- deadhead,
- make a faux pas,
- Stupe,
- bird,
- failing,
- mistaken,
- faulty,
- misprint,
- bat,
- duff,
- empty,
- falter,
- offence,
- GINK,
- ding-a-ling,
- dunce,
- hombre,
- coot,
- ruin,
- nimrod,
- crackpot,
- goop,
- slit,
- changeable,
- loony,
- dawdle,
- miss the mark,
- unreasonable,
- extravagant,
- indirect,
- erroneous,
- boob stunt,
- duffer,
- dingbat,
- counterfeit,
- stumble on,
- screwup,
- loggerhead,
- duck,
- Chucklehead,
- Clodpoll,
- Fribble,
- muggins,
- bugger up,
- galoot,
- dip into,
- Mome,
- clanger.
How to use "Goof" in context?
Originally, the term "goof" referred to a comic mishap. It is now used more generally to describe unintentional humorous behavior. In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary lists the first use of the word in print as appearing in an 1885 edition of the Saturday Evening Post.
There are many examples of goofs, but perhaps the most well-known is the Osgood Kelly goof. In 1924, cartoonist Osgood Kelly created a Poor Little Rich Boy stereotype character named Red Timony.
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