debacle
/day-BAH-kul/nouna sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco
“The launch became a debacle within an hour.”
- Synonyms
- fiasco, disaster, collapse
- Antonyms
- triumph, success
- Memory hook
- debacle: the ice breaking up and sweeping everything away.
Learn debacle and 1,000+ GRE words with spaced repetition and an AI tutor.
Start learning free