- failure
- n1. lack of success, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment, defeat, frustration, inefficacy; mishap, misfortune, mischance; miscarriage, abortion; blunder, error, slip, trip, stumble, faux pas; botch, muff, mess, muddle; fizzle, fiasco, Inf. washout; vain attempt, wild-goose chase, sleeveless errand; checkmate, deathblow, tragedy, debacle, sinking ship; rebuff, repulse, overthrow, discomfiture, beating, drubbing, Inf. body blow.2. delinquency, dereliction, negligence, inadvertency; nonobservance, omission, default, oversight, pretermission; indiscretion, peccadillo, mistake; recreancy, backsliding, apostasy.3. insufficiency, deficiency, want, lack, dearth, scarcity.4. deterioration, decline, decay, wasting away, failing, languor, debilitation; collapse, decrepitude, Pathol. atony, Pathol. asthenia, Pathol. cachexia.5. bankruptcy, insolvency, financial disaster; crash, wreck, ruination, downfall.6. unsuccessful person or thing, also-ran, lead balloon, Inf. flop, Sl. bomb, Sl. brodie, Inf. clunker, Inf. lemon, Inf. dud, Sl. clinker, Inf. bummer, Sl. bust; down-and-outer, loser, schlemiel, Sl. dog.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.