fiasco
UK/fiˈæs.kəʊ//fiˈæs.koʊ/
fiasco noun: a sudden or unexpected failure.
Noun
fiasco (plural fiascos or fiascoes or fiaschi or (hypercorrect) fiasci)
- A sudden or unexpected failure.
- The event turned into a complete fiasco when the power went out.
- His speech was a fiasco that left the audience confused.
- A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
- There was the fiasco about Olga coming to the tableaux, which was the cause of her sending that very tart reply, via Miss Lyall, to Lady Ambermere's impertinence, and the very next morning, Lady Ambermere, coming again into Riseholme, perhaps for that very purpose, had behaved to Lucia as Lucia had...1920, Edward Frederic Benson, Queen Lucia
- Synonyms:
- debacle
- A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
- I sent for the porter and when he came I told him in Italian to get me a bottle of Cinzano at the wine shop, a fiasco of chianti and the evening papers. He went away and brought them wrapped in newspaper, unwrapped them and, when I asked him to, drew the corks and put the wine and vermouth under...1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC
fiasco meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
fiasco in Tamil
- படுதோல்வி
fiasco in Urdu
- بربادی, مکمل ناکامی
fiasco in Bengali
- চরম ব্যর্থতা, সম্পূর্ণ বিপর্যয়, হাস্যকরভাবে ব্যর্থ হওয়া
fiasco in Malayalam
- വലിയ തോൽവി, പരാജയം, നാണം കെട്ട പരാജയം, സ്വര, രാഗ
More languagesFewer languages
- fiasco in Kannada
- ಆಭಾಸ, ಅಧ್ವಾನ, ಗೊಂದಲ, ನಗೆಪಾಟಲು
- fiasco in Gujarati
- ફિયાસ્કો
Examples of fiasco in a sentence
- Was the European Super League fiasco the Ceausescu moment for neoliberalism?
- Ingraham could have admitted that Trump made himself look ridiculous during the "Sharpiegate" fiasco.
- I know, I know, we’re over the whole “Ariana Grande licked a doughnut she hadn’t bought” fiasco.
Synonyms of fiasco
Forms of fiasco
| plural | fiascos |
|---|---|
| plural | fiascoes |
| plural | fiaschi |
| plural hypercorrect | fiasci |
Origin of fiasco
Borrowed from Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flascō (“bottle, container”), from Frankish *flaskā (“bottle, flask”) from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”); see flask. “Failure” sense comes through French faire fiasco from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally “to make a bottle”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from an expression fare il fiasco, meaning to play a game with the forfeit that the loser will buy the next bottle or round of drinks. Doublet of flacon, flagon, and flask.
Questions about fiasco
- What does fiasco mean?
- Fiasco means a sudden or unexpected failure.
- What is fiasco in Tamil?
- Fiasco in Tamil is படுதோல்வி. See Fiasco meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fiasco?
- Fiasco is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fiasco?
- Fiasco is pronounced /fiˈæs.kəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fiasco?
- The plural of fiasco is fiascos.
Words near fiasco in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiasco (page history and authors); fiasco (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiasco (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Fiasco (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiasco (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiasco (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiasco (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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