screwed up

VERB

make a mess of

Synonyms

STRONGEST

botch bungle confuse flub muddle spoil

WEAK

blow bobble bollix foul up goof goof up louse make hash of mess mess up mishandle mismanage muck up muff snafu

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clear up do well enlighten explain order organize succeed

screwed-up

ADJECTIVE

broken

Synonyms

STRONGEST

busted defective faulty ruined wrecked

STRONG

dead disabled down gone out shot spent wracked

WEAK

coming unstuck fallen apart feeble gone to pieces haywire imperfect in disrepair in need of repair in the shop inoperable inoperative kaput not functioning on the blink on the fritz out of commission out of kilter out of order out of whack run down unsatisfactory weak

Antonyms

STRONGEST

perfect repaired

WEAK

fixed working

ADJECTIVE

damaged

Synonyms

STRONGEST

flawed impaired injured run-down

STRONG

bent blemished busted dinged down flubbed gone hurt marred shot snafued spoiled sunk totaled

WEAK

beat-up fouled-up glitched imperfect in need of repair in poor condition in smithereens kaput loused up messed-up mucked up no-go on the blink on the fritz out of action out of kilter out of whack unsound

Antonyms

STRONGEST

healthy

WEAK

OK fixed mended perfect repaired unbroken undamaged working

ADJECTIVE

disorganized

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chaotic confused haphazard muddled

STRONG

disordered jumbled shuffled

WEAK

disorderly mixed up unsystematic

Antonyms

STRONGEST

methodical ordered organized systematic

WEAK

neat planned regulated systematized tidy

ADJECTIVE

puzzled

Synonyms

STRONGEST

baffled bewildered clueless doubtful mystified perplexed rattled

STRONG

bollixed discombobulated floored lost nonplussed shook stuck stumped thrown

WEAK

at a loss at sea come apart come unzipped dopey foggy fouled-up hung up in a fog loused up messed-up mind-blown mixed up mucked up shook-up spaced out unglued without a clue

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clear

WEAK

aware certain cognizant sure

ADJECTIVE

slipshod

Synonyms

WEAK

bedraggled botched disheveled faulty fly-by-night fouled-up haphazard imperfect inaccurate inexact junky loose messed-up messy neglected negligent raunchy scrubby scruffy shabby shoddy slapdash sloppy slovenly tacky tattered threadbare unkempt unmeticulous unsystematic unthorough untidy

Antonyms

WEAK

careful neat polished refined well-done

Example Sentences

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“They screwed up, basically, and when you screw up, you gotta be accountable,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

If that happens and Congress later says, Wait, we screwed up, start it up again—it’s too late, because the spacecraft is no longer able to be contacted.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

“That’s where they screwed up, they started subsidizing a lot of these guys clear back in the Dust Bowl,” Mike said of the biggest ranches.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

“They screwed up, it was a bad day for them; they didn’t follow protocol and they should have. ... Other than that, they’re great. ...Let’s hope that they’ve learned.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

I screwed up and now I’m in a group home.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

screwed up

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