fail
Meaning of fail
noun
- Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
The project was full of fail.
- A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
- A failure (something incapable of success)
- A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
- A failing grade in an academic examination.
- To be unsuccessful.
Throughout my life, I have always failed.
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
The truck failed to start.
- To neglect.
The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
After running five minutes, the engine failed.
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
I failed English last year.
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
- To miss attaining; to lose.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
The crops failed last year.
- To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
- To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
A sick man fails.
- To perish; to die; used of a person.
- To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
adjective
That is a failure.
noun
A piece of turf cut from grassland.
Information about fail
- The plural form of fail is: fails.
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Hyphenation of fail
fail
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- fail is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
fail synonyms
Meaning neglect:
Meaning go wrong:
Meaning betray:
Meaning go bad:
Meaning flunk:
fail antonyms
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Translation of fail
- German: scheitern, versagen
- Spanish: fallar, reprobado
- French: échouer
- Portuguese: falhar, negativa
- Italian: fallire, bocciare
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