FLOPPED Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

flopped

verb

past tense of flop

as in plopped

to throw or set down clumsily or casually they lazily flopped themselves onto the couch to watch the game flopped the bag of groceries onto the counter

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as in collapsed

to be unsuccessful the attempt to run the ball into the end zone flopped, and our team lost by five points

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as in flapped

to move or cause to move with a striking motion a fish flopping around on the dock

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Recent Examples of flopped Under Cook, the company has become less surprising but massively financially successful; some of Apple’s newer products have flopped or underperformed, but far more have become and stayed excellent thanks to years of competent iteration. —

ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026 Cuomo’s podcast and mayoral bid flopped. —

Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026 The comedy flopped at the box office, but Drop Dead Gorgeous proved ahead of its time — the movie cast Amy Adams in her first film role — and has since been declared a cult classic. —

Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026 Media companies a decade ago raced to engage young, bilingual Latinos by launching start-ups, including a joint venture between ABC News and Univision called Fusion that flopped. —

Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026 Apartments, hotels and office buildings have flopped into foreclosures. —

George Avalos, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026 Even their most consistent hitter of the year flopped in that spot on Sunday as Ramón Laureano went 0-for-5. —

Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026 Why Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis initially flopped. —

Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026 After beating Atlanta last Friday without Jaylen Brown and Charlotte on Sunday without Brown and Derrick White, Boston flopped in a rematch with the Hawks, losing 112-102 without a crew of contributors headlined by a resting Jayson Tatum. —

Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026

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Verb

In 2012, before his second big-league season, reliever Jared Hughes sat in front of his computer, plopped a pile of W-2s on the table and opened his tax filing software.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
His approach shot bounced in front of the green, took a left turn and plopped into the pond, leaving quiet ripples across the water.

— Doug Ferguson, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026