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failurenoun the nonperformance of an assigned or expected actionyour failure to check the batteries in the smoke detector could have tragic results default, delinquency, dereliction, misprision, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, oversight carelessness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, laxity compliance, discharge, fulfillment(or fulfilment) a falling short of one's goalsthe failure of the school's fund-raising drive was a big disappointment to all collapse, crash, cropper, defeat, fizzle, nonachievement, nonsuccess futility, uselessnessineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacydeficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiencydisappointment, letdown, setback accomplishment, achievement, success victory, win something that has failedthe students' first attempt to build a homemade rocket was a disappointing failure bomb, bummer, bust, catastrophe, clinker, clunker, debacle(also débâcle), disaster, dud, fiasco, fizzle, flop, frost, lemon, loser, miss, shipwreck, turkey, washout also-ran, disappointment, dog, has-been, near missbotch, hash, mess, muddle, shamblesnoneventnonstarter blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner corker, crackerjack(also crackajack), dandy, jim-dandy, phenomenon a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or numberthe failure of the potato crop had a devastating effect on the population of Ireland crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought(also drouth), famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want absence, omissionmeagerness, poorness, skimpinessnecessity, need, privation abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth bountifulness, copiousnessexcess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus the inability to pay one's debtsyears of prolonged economic depression, when business failures were common in 1643 |