fail

A2
Pronunciation
/feɪl/
Noun
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

Example Sentences
  • The project was full of fail.
2 Definition

A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)

3 Definition

A failure (something incapable of success)

4 Definition

A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).

5 Definition

A failing grade in an academic examination.

6 Definition

A piece of turf cut from grassland.

Verb
15 definition(s)
1 Definition

To be unsuccessful.

Example Sentences
  • Throughout my life, I have always failed.
2 Definition

Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

Example Sentences
  • The truck failed to start.
3 Definition

To neglect.

Example Sentences
  • The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
4 Definition

Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

Example Sentences
  • After running five minutes, the engine failed.
5 Definition

To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.

6 Definition

To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

Example Sentences
  • I failed English last year.
7 Definition

To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

Example Sentences
  • The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
8 Definition

To miss attaining; to lose.

9 Definition

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

Example Sentences
  • The crops failed last year.
10 Definition

To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

11 Definition

To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

12 Definition

To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

Example Sentences
  • A sick man fails.
13 Definition

To perish; to die; used of a person.

14 Definition

To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

15 Definition

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
1 definition(s)
1 Definition

That is a failure.