Definition for Failure:

• In a general sense, deficiency, want, or lack ; ineffectualness ; inefficiencyas measured by some legal standard; an unsuccessful attempt. White v. Pettijohn, 23N. C. 55; State v. Butler, 81 Minn. 103, 83 N. W. 4S3; Andrews v. Keep, 3S Ala. 317.In commercial law, the suspension or abandonment of business by a merchant,manufacturer, bank, etc., in consequence of insolvency. American Credit Indemnity Co.v. Carrolton Furniture Mfg. Co., 95 Fed. 115, 36 C. C. A. 671; Terry v. Caiman. 13 S. C.220; State v. Lewis, 42 La. Ann. 847. 8 South. 602.

Synonyms for Failure:

• n.

  •
  • insolvency,
  • bomb,
  • faux pas,
  • mess,
  • fizzle,
  • crash,
  • misstep,
  • rupture,
  • omission,
  • botch,
  • stalemate,
  • checkmate,
  • bungle,
  • rout,
  • negligence,
  • malfunction,
  • abortion,
  • washout,
  • flash in the pan,
  • quitter,
  • dog,
  • dead duck,
  • stoppage,
  • bummer,
  • frustration.
  •
  • bankrupt,
  • cultivated,
  • defaulter,
  • cultivate,
  • corn,
  • bum,
  • arable,
  • beachcomber,
  • derelict,
  • combine,
  • no-account,
  • star,
  • veteran,
  • crop,
  • incompetent,
  • prodigal,
  • scapegrace.
  •
  • sidestep,
  • delay,
  • avoidance,
  • inaction,
  • stagnation,
  • standstill,
  • evasion,
  • thrive,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • inertia,
  • Unsuccess.
  •
  • lull,
  • fallow,
  • wilderness,
  • slump,
  • trough,
  • eclipse.
  •
  • outage.
  •
  • delinquency,
  • DO,
  • default,
  • nonfeasance.
  •
  • decline,
  • deterioration,
  • declination.
  •
  • money.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • defection.
  •attack (noun)
  • relapse.
  •defeat (noun)
  • defeat,
  • overthrow,
  • downfall,
  • beating,
  • collapse.
  •dereliction (noun)
  • neglect,
  • infraction,
  • violation,
  • nonobservance,
  • nonperformance,
  • dereliction.
  •disappointment (noun)
  • lack of success,
  • faux pas,
  • bafflement,
  • frustration,
  • inefficacy,
  • unfulfillment,
  • disillusionment,
  • fizzle.
  •error (noun)
  • howler,
  • mismanagement,
  • misconception,
  • boo-boo,
  • goof.
  •failure (noun)
  • nonstarter,
  • fiasco,
  • skid,
  • Noncompletion,
  • bust,
  • nosedive,
  • loser,
  • miscarriage,
  • noncompliance,
  • implosion,
  • reversal,
  • tailspin,
  • meltdown,
  • crash,
  • miss,
  • defection,
  • wipeout,
  • thrashing,
  • waterloo,
  • misfire,
  • infertility,
  • unsuccessful person,
  • trouncing.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • impossibility.
  •inferior (noun)
  • underachiever,
  • flop,
  • also-ran,
  • dud,
  • born loser,
  • turkey,
  • underdog,
  • second banana,
  • subaltern,
  • loser,
  • nonstarter,
  • subordinate,
  • lemon,
  • underling,
  • second,
  • second fiddle,
  • reject,
  • inferior,
  • has-been.
  •inutility (noun)
  • impracticality,
  • fruitlessness,
  • uselessness,
  • Detrimentalness,
  • good-for-nothingness,
  • ineffectiveness,
  • inadequacy,
  • futility,
  • unsuitability.
  •lack of success (noun)
  • collapse,
  • botch,
  • wreck,
  • misadventure,
  • overthrow,
  • inadequacy,
  • fiasco,
  • defeat,
  • decay,
  • deterioration,
  • bungle,
  • bomb,
  • breakdown,
  • loss,
  • bankruptcy,
  • stoppage,
  • flop,
  • rupture,
  • decline,
  • nonperformance,
  • deficit,
  • faux pas,
  • misstep,
  • washout,
  • flash in the pan,
  • failing,
  • lemon,
  • turkey,
  • miscarriage,
  • checkmate,
  • stalemate,
  • bust,
  • total loss,
  • implosion,
  • false step,
  • abortion,
  • downfall,
  • sinking ship,
  • lead balloon,
  • loser,
  • deficiency,
  • rout,
  • nonsuccess,
  • frustration,
  • mess.
  •licking (noun)
  • licking.
  •misconduct (noun)
  • delinquency.
  •misstep (noun)
  • gaffe.
  •person who does not succeed (noun)
  • has-been,
  • nonperformer,
  • disappointment,
  • defaulter,
  • derelict,
  • castaway,
  • dud,
  • prodigal,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • beat,
  • bum,
  • underachiever,
  • bankrupt,
  • moocher,
  • lumpy,
  • might-have-been,
  • insolvent,
  • born loser,
  • also-ran,
  • deadbeat,
  • nobody,
  • loafer,
  • no-good,
  • incompetent.
  •ruin (noun)
  • collision,
  • apocalypse,
  • shipwreck,
  • wreck,
  • wreckage,
  • landslide,
  • debacle,
  • breakdown,
  • ruin.
  •shortage (noun)
  • shortfall,
  • underage,
  • scarceness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inability,
  • dead duck,
  • Nonfulfillment,
  • evasion,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • nonfeasance,
  • break,
  • inaction,
  • loss,
  • avoidance,
  • performance,
  • standstill,
  • error,
  • disappointment,
  • decay,
  • Unsuccess,
  • dropout,
  • quitter,
  • stasis,
  • flash in the pan.
  •
  • insolvency,
  • delay,
  • declination,
  • bomb,
  • delinquency,
  • outage,
  • undoing,
  • clunker,
  • tragedy,
  • fallow,
  • stagnation,
  • inertia,
  • quiescent.
  •
  • eclipse,
  • wilderness,
  • lull,
  • abortion,
  • deterioration.
  •
  • trough.
  •
  • slump,
  • fault.
  •
  • trouble.
  •break down
  • malfunction.
  •catastrophe
  • disaster.
  •disaster
  • washout,
  • catastrophe.
  •incompetence
  • helplessness.
  •incompetent
  • lightweight.
  •reversal
  • comedown.
  •slip
  • misstep,
  • lapse.
  •Other relevant words:
  • trouble,
  • inefficiency,
  • vulgarity,
  • end,
  • prevent,
  • nil,
  • beachcomber,
  • Nonfulfillment,
  • break,
  • incompetence,
  • melodrama,
  • delay,
  • oscitance,
  • pinch,
  • remissness,
  • deviate,
  • lacuna,
  • dereliction of duty,
  • Misdoing,
  • Misreport,
  • decadency,
  • short,
  • shortcoming,
  • frowns of fortune,
  • Vanquishment,
  • insolvent,
  • theater of cruelty,
  • serial,
  • hardship,
  • boob,
  • fall down,
  • indiscretion,
  • mediocrity,
  • restrain,
  • foible,
  • blunder,
  • inanity,
  • demise,
  • affliction,
  • attack,
  • defective,
  • overturn,
  • corrigendum,
  • forgetfulness,
  • limited,
  • misfeasance,
  • slackness,
  • misconception,
  • Misprision,
  • descent,
  • disappear,
  • meagre,
  • less,
  • debasement,
  • erratum,
  • catch,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • dashed hope,
  • swerve,
  • mystery,
  • impossibility,
  • mirage,
  • informality,
  • deterioration,
  • bankruptcy,
  • disappoint,
  • ebb,
  • shabbiness,
  • gasser,
  • variety show,
  • dissolution,
  • labor in vain,
  • mortal sin,
  • corn,
  • sketch,
  • damaged,
  • besetting sin,
  • foundering,
  • underprivileged,
  • sin of omission,
  • insufficient,
  • ill,
  • iniquity,
  • problem play,
  • tribulation,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • folding,
  • closet drama,
  • defection,
  • avoidance,
  • eclipse,
  • miscount,
  • declination,
  • leeway,
  • decay,
  • comedown,
  • havoc,
  • depreciation,
  • weakness,
  • disappointment,
  • wiping out,
  • malfunction,
  • carelessness,
  • shatter,
  • bouncing check,
  • hard case,
  • Inobservance,
  • crack,
  • lack,
  • revue,
  • slender,
  • daytime serial,
  • sinking,
  • baseness,
  • abort,
  • partial,
  • disillusionment,
  • dearth,
  • veteran,
  • psychodrama,
  • stoppage,
  • castaway,
  • destruction,
  • morality play,
  • total loss,
  • inefficacy,
  • lack of success,
  • muddle,
  • clerical error,
  • dead letter,
  • masque,
  • cropper,
  • flaw,
  • nonconformity,
  • powerlessness,
  • Overcoming,
  • giveaway,
  • inadequate,
  • default,
  • incapability,
  • frustrate,
  • distress,
  • howler,
  • drought,
  • permissiveness,
  • ill luck,
  • chastisement,
  • plunge,
  • unskillfulness,
  • skimpiness,
  • delinquency,
  • defalcation,
  • hard luck,
  • inertia,
  • circumvent,
  • television drama,
  • accident,
  • talk show,
  • blow,
  • negligence,
  • misunderstanding,
  • meanness,
  • insolvency,
  • scarce,
  • inability,
  • lame-duck,
  • passiveness,
  • schlemiel,
  • laissez faire,
  • misuse,
  • lightweight,
  • inadvertency,
  • moocher,
  • capital crime,
  • breach,
  • fizzle,
  • omission,
  • trimming,
  • vaudeville show,
  • playlet,
  • dog,
  • derogation,
  • ebbing,
  • dying,
  • vice,
  • lambasting,
  • implosion,
  • mischance,
  • human error,
  • dead duck,
  • minstrel show,
  • fewness,
  • disregard,
  • piece,
  • nonsuccess,
  • liability,
  • shortage,
  • bereavement,
  • dip,
  • Peccancy,
  • mediocre,
  • lapse,
  • paucity,
  • transgression,
  • infertility,
  • pastoral,
  • Recreance,
  • trough,
  • skit,
  • felony,
  • lumpy,
  • slump,
  • deformation,
  • frailty,
  • vaudeville,
  • degeneracy,
  • Laches,
  • no-account,
  • misconduct,
  • Culpa,
  • opera,
  • money,
  • foiling,
  • disadvantage,
  • quietus,
  • DO,
  • smash,
  • unsuccessful person,
  • break down,
  • retrogression,
  • laxity,
  • noninterference,
  • underage,
  • set back,
  • unresponsiveness,
  • balk,
  • cultivate,
  • deficiency,
  • mismanagement,
  • Arrearage,
  • incompleteness,
  • nonfeasance,
  • hiding,
  • flunk,
  • inactivity,
  • slip,
  • be lacking,
  • refusal,
  • atrocity,
  • Subdual,
  • famine,
  • conquering,
  • passivity,
  • happening,
  • duologue,
  • dash,
  • exhaustion,
  • catastrophe,
  • bomb,
  • pageant,
  • effeteness,
  • mean,
  • Malum,
  • knock,
  • inattentiveness,
  • absence,
  • zero,
  • faute,
  • offense,
  • misfire,
  • nonaccomplishment,
  • pantomime,
  • blemish,
  • abortion,
  • maim,
  • indifference,
  • break out,
  • inferiority,
  • botch,
  • duodrama,
  • blot,
  • wipeout,
  • quiz show,
  • failing,
  • irregularity,
  • harm,
  • miss,
  • drop,
  • Degenerateness,
  • go,
  • downturn,
  • ought,
  • disobedience,
  • radio drama,
  • visitation,
  • nonperformer,
  • misdemeanor,
  • rout,
  • bum,
  • naught,
  • be defeated,
  • recession,
  • shock,
  • sad sack,
  • overlooking,
  • Misjudgment,
  • fade,
  • bungle,
  • slough of despond,
  • come to naught,
  • scarceness,
  • problem,
  • discomfiture,
  • bad break,
  • misapprehension,
  • weak side,
  • guilt,
  • destroy,
  • show,
  • tailspin,
  • boo-boo,
  • Chapter 11,
  • fallow,
  • depression,
  • licking,
  • misbehavior,
  • subnormality,
  • unfulfillment,
  • weak point,
  • in short supply,
  • frost,
  • misdemeanour,
  • tableau vivant,
  • Tantalization,
  • loss,
  • decline,
  • tease,
  • scantiness,
  • check,
  • Non-performance,
  • weakening,
  • sinking ship,
  • outage,
  • quiescent,
  • counteract,
  • regression,
  • inefficaciousness,
  • panel show,
  • expire,
  • trip,
  • rupture,
  • Arrear,
  • uncooperativeness,
  • Recreancy,
  • meltdown,
  • bootlessness,
  • culpable negligence,
  • devastation,
  • sidestep,
  • disintegration,
  • burst,
  • typo,
  • star,
  • tergiversation,
  • scapegrace,
  • sin,
  • delictum,
  • flagging,
  • Depravation,
  • boner,
  • err,
  • slight,
  • soap opera,
  • review,
  • expel,
  • disable,
  • incompetent,
  • overdraft,
  • meager,
  • disappearance,
  • degradation,
  • poor,
  • decadence,
  • typographical error,
  • inadequateness,
  • might-have-been,
  • antimasque,
  • trespass,
  • want,
  • nobody,
  • flash in the pan,
  • impropriety,
  • malfeasance,
  • non-starter,
  • buffet,
  • imperfection,
  • whipping,
  • offence,
  • hard life,
  • bafflement,
  • Unsatisfaction,
  • disrespect,
  • taint,
  • no-good,
  • Unsuccess,
  • prodigal,
  • overdrawn account,
  • indebtedness,
  • Ebb tide,
  • deficient,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • slippage,
  • demotion,
  • gaffe,
  • narrow,
  • cultivated,
  • stasis,
  • tort,
  • mystery play,
  • liquidation,
  • schlimazel,
  • debilitation,
  • conquest,
  • undoing,
  • enormity,
  • washout,
  • looseness,
  • mechanism,
  • non-success,
  • adversity,
  • frustration,
  • monologue,
  • fatuity,
  • blighted hope,
  • discontinuance,
  • Retrocession,
  • inattention,
  • non-cooperation,
  • poorness,
  • reverse,
  • fading,
  • forlorn hope,
  • Inexecution,
  • unutterable sin,
  • insufficiency,
  • quitter,
  • crime,
  • non-compliance,
  • false alarm,
  • misquotation,
  • sorrow,
  • interrupt,
  • inaction,
  • triviality,
  • beat,
  • violate,
  • disaster,
  • misstatement,
  • HIT,
  • soap,
  • not worth,
  • decrease,
  • short measure,
  • defect,
  • procrastination,
  • devolution,
  • stagnation,
  • shortfall,
  • bug,
  • evil star,
  • wrong,
  • thrive,
  • drama,
  • Successlessness,
  • tableau,
  • ruination,
  • denial,
  • terminate,
  • error,
  • lull,
  • Unluckiness,
  • crunch,
  • schnook,
  • incomplete,
  • injury,
  • gaucherie,
  • standstill,
  • sociodrama,
  • falling off,
  • misidentification,
  • clanger,
  • worsening,
  • imperfect,
  • performance,
  • pettiness,
  • charade,
  • derelict,
  • Nonexecution,
  • teleplay,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • reversion,
  • ineffective,
  • Monodrama,
  • light,
  • clunker,
  • mastery,
  • agree,
  • laxness,
  • ineffectuality,
  • checkmate,
  • misadventure,
  • declension,
  • ballet,
  • repulse,
  • falling short,
  • incompetency,
  • miracle,
  • crop,
  • work,
  • half,
  • skid,
  • miracle play,
  • unconcern,
  • waning,
  • fall,
  • letdown,
  • aught,
  • drawback,
  • maladroitness,
  • misery,
  • dramatic play,
  • fault,
  • mess,
  • misdeal,
  • crime against humanity,
  • outrage,
  • setback,
  • hole,
  • infirmity,
  • miscalculation,
  • faux pas,
  • Malefaction,
  • clinker,
  • spectacle,
  • morality,
  • perish,
  • Subduing,
  • smallness,
  • inutility,
  • Non-fulfilment,
  • need,
  • kited check,
  • goof,
  • arable,
  • weak link,
  • not enough,
  • stage play,
  • arrears,
  • fail,
  • oversight,
  • undersupply,
  • misplay,
  • reversal,
  • play,
  • deadbeat,
  • Depravedness,
  • involution,
  • calamity,
  • misstep,
  • shlimazel,
  • evil,
  • helplessness,
  • ineffectualness,
  • dialogue,
  • venial sin,
  • trial,
  • oscitancy,
  • Deathblow,
  • hardware error,
  • BREACH OF SECURITY,
  • degeneration,
  • chastening,
  • insufficient funds,
  • shellacking,
  • hash,
  • peccadillo,
  • Music drama,
  • enfeeblement,
  • faulty,
  • dropout,
  • relapse,
  • meagerness,
  • nothing,
  • genocide,
  • exiguous,
  • nebbish,
  • snag,
  • Unobservance,
  • die,
  • bankrupt,
  • misfit,
  • rift,
  • breakup,
  • relaxation,
  • nosedive,
  • lacking,
  • destitution,
  • heedlessness,
  • nought,
  • evil dispensation,
  • cloven foot,
  • television play,
  • scarcity,
  • let down,
  • deficit,
  • defaulter,
  • mishap,
  • misfortune,
  • extravaganza,
  • situation comedy,
  • invalidity,
  • vehicle,
  • lead balloon,
  • drubbing,
  • nonadherence,
  • minor wrong,
  • miscarry,
  • mistake,
  • Disconformity,
  • combine,
  • sitcom,
  • downtrend,
  • misdeed,
  • stroke,
  • Non-observance,
  • bad habit,
  • littleness,
  • nonentity,
  • false step,
  • nonconformance,
  • deadly sin,
  • poverty,
  • rejection,
  • malpractice,
  • Lathering,
  • inadvertence,
  • improvisational drama,
  • stage show,
  • crash,
  • defectiveness,
  • noncompliance,
  • bummer,
  • subjugation,
  • wash out,
  • neglectfulness,
  • loafer,
  • tragedy,
  • evasion,
  • brief,
  • injustice,
  • disregarding,
  • kink,
  • downslide,
  • wane,
  • fall off,
  • vulnerable place,
  • mis,
  • receivership,
  • shlemiel,
  • misprint,
  • hard lines,
  • substandard,
  • slip-up,
  • Retrogradation,
  • stalemate,
  • bad luck,
  • wilderness,
  • nonachievement,
  • nonrestriction.

Antonyms for Failure:

• n.

  • event
    success.
  • lack of success
    plenty, achiever, accomplishment, achievement, win, merit, rise, triumph, improvement, blessing, continuation, increase, betterment, success, enough, gain, earnings, benefit, attainment.
  • person who does not succeed
    hard worker.
  • state
    success.
  • Other antonyms:
    solvency, opulence, copiousness, compliance, phenomenon, gratification, bountifulness, consolation, good fortune, pleasure, crackerjack, happiness, dandy, comfort, joy, blessing, oversupply, good luck, discharge, overabundance, boon, plenty, plenitude, surfeit, amplitude, relief, sufficiency, wealth, abundance, victory, prosperity, jim-dandy, adequacy.

Homophones for Failure:

• florey, filer, follower, flower, flory, flier, faller, flowery, filar, fuller, foolery, flare, fluor, floury, filaria, Fleer, filler, florio, fowler, feller, flour, feeler, flora, flurry, filaree, floor, flyer, f layer, flair.

Hypernym for Failure:

• n.

  • act
    loss, dashing hopes, nonconformance, relapsing, backsliding, misplay, error, failing, lapsing, default, naught, nonconformity, reverting, breach, lapse, copout, reversion, nonpayment, relapse, flunk, disappointment, out, nonremittal.
  • event
    breakdown, defeat, downfall, miscreation, miscarriage, malfunction, equipment failure, flame-out, misfire, ruination, licking, miss, fizzle, abortion, ruin, flop, bust, malformation.
  • state
    dead duck, coronary failure, bank failure, heart failure, kidney failure, renal failure, bankruptcy, crop failure.

Hyponym for Failure:

• n.

  • act
    nonachievement, skip, nonaccomplishment, omission.
  • event
    natural event, Occurrent, happening, occurrence.
  • state
    disorder, circumstances, luck, portion, upset, fortune, fate, destiny, lot.