Disaster and Mess

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Disaster noun - Something that has failed.

Usage example: an utter disaster, the play opened and closed on the same miserable night

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Mess is a synonym for disaster in failure topic. In some cases you can use "Mess" instead a noun "Disaster", when it comes to topics like fiasco.

Nearby Word: disastrous

Mess noun - A state in which everything is out of order.

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Disaster is a synonym for mess in fiasco topic. Sometimes you can use "Disaster" instead a noun "Mess".

Nearby Words: messy, messed, messing

complete	complete disaster	complete mess
utter	utter disaster	utter mess
total	total disaster	total mess
entire	entire disaster	entire mess
Other adjectives: real, massive, big, huge, terrible, horrible, absolute, major, political, subsequent, resulting, ensuing, horrific, bigger.

Claudia even tries to mess with her Farnsworth to change the ringtone, which, naturally, almost leads to a disaster.

Source: Cell Phones Are Useless
He became so horrified during the report of the disaster that made him famous that he became a sobbing, incoherent mess for a few seconds, before he finally had to walk away from what he was seeing.

Source: Heroic BSOD / Real Life
Disaster Dominoes: On a smaller scale than most disasters, but Daffy still makes a big mess when he crashes the Batmobile into the Warner Water Tower.

Source: Film / Looney Tunes: Back in Action

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