Failure

Definition:

• (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
• (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
• (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
• (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
• (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
• (n.) A failing; a slight fault.

Compare failure with other words:

failure vs. fracture

deviation vs. failure

failure vs. loss

collapse vs. failure

failure vs. fall

failure vs. infraction

abnormal vs. failure

failure vs. sustainable

disruption vs. failure

defailure vs. failure

failance vs. failure

failure vs. nonfulfillment

failure vs. misappreciation

backcast vs. failure

defect vs. failure

failure vs. issue

failure vs. succeed

failure vs. righteous

failure vs. flaw

failure vs. fallacy

erode vs. failure

disbelief vs. failure

failure vs. favor

failing vs. failure

failure vs. futility

failure vs. mishap

failure vs. mistake

failure vs. nonperformance

failure vs. postlapsarian

failure vs. nonpayment

failure vs. guaranty

failure vs. inattention

failure vs. misapprehension

failure vs. nonconformity

failure vs. miscarriage

defeat vs. failure

failure vs. hurtle

failure vs. rapid

failure vs. follow

failure vs. fiasco

disappointment vs. failure

failure vs. perseverance

failure vs. rupture

failure vs. redundancy

failure vs. washout

asystole vs. failure

failure vs. fallacious

failure vs. jeopardy

failure vs. reluctance

digitalis vs. failure

failure vs. miss

failure vs. triumph

failure vs. loser

failure vs. function

failure vs. required

failure vs. perform

failure vs. item

ability vs. failure

failure vs. incapable

endeavour vs. failure

failure vs. object

failure vs. opposite

failure vs. objective

failure vs. intended

desirable vs. failure

failure vs. meet

condition vs. failure

failure vs. fatal

dispute vs. failure

failure vs. preterition

failure vs. flop

breakdown vs. failure

failure vs. killer

alopecia vs. failure

fail vs. failure

doomed vs. failure

failure vs. underwrite

failure vs. stink

failure vs. reset

bomb vs. failure

failure vs. turkey

failure vs. success