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mistake vs mess-up

mess-up vs mistake

mistake and mess-up both are nouns.

mistake is a verb but mess-up is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
mistake Yes No Yes No
mess-up Yes No No No
As nouns, mess-up is a hyponym of mistake; that is, mess-up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mistake:
  • mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
  • mess-up: something badly botched or muddled
Other hyponyms of mistake include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.
mistake (noun) mess-up (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention something badly botched or muddled
an understanding of something that is not correct
part of a statement that is not correct
mistake (verb) mess-up (verb)
to make a mistake or be incorrect
identify incorrectly
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