fiasco

Meaning

1. A sudden or unexpected failure.
2. A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
3. A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

Synonyms

failure

debacle

flop

disaster

complete failure

total failure

collapse

abortion

misfortune

upheaval

washout

rice-cake painting

something of little value

shame

fizzle

catastrophe

convulsion

discredit

disgrace

disrepute

calamity

train wreck

turkey

Translations

fiasco

fiasco

fiasco

Fiasko

fracaso

fiasco

fiyasko

debâcle

echec

fiasco

flop

φιάσκο

fiasco

fracasso

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fiˈæs.kəʊ/

Etymology

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.