Usually means: Lack of success in achievement.
Definitions [Related words] [Phrases(New!) ] [Mentions] [Lyrics] [History] [Colors(New!) ]
We found 49 dictionaries that define the word failure:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. failure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. failure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. failure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. failure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. failure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Failure, failure: Wordnik
  7. failure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. failure: Wiktionary
  9. failure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. failure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. failure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. failure: Dictionary.com
  13. failure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Failure (Breaking Benjamin song), Failure (King Missile album), Failure (Sevendust song), Failure (The Posies album), Failure (band), Failure (disambiguation), Failure (material), Failure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Failure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. failure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. failure: Rhymezone
  18. failure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. failure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Failure: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. failure: Free Dictionary
  22. failure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. failure: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. failure: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. failure: Legal dictionary
  5. failure: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. failure: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. failure: Netlingo
  3. failure: CCI Computer
  4. failure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Failure: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. failure: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FAILURE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Failure: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Failure: Building pathology glossary
  3. FAILURE: Power Engineering
  4. failure: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

(Note: See failures as well.)

Google, News, Wikipedia, Reddit, X, BlueSky, Kagi
Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
▸ noun:  (pathology) A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
▸ noun:  Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
▸ noun:  An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
▸ noun:  Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
▸ noun:  Bankruptcy.

Similar:
nonstarter, loser, unsuccessful person, failing, unsuccess, success, inability, refusal, malfunction, doomed, more...

Opposite:
success, achievement, victory, triumph, accomplishment

Types:
mechanical, electrical, structural, human, more...

Phrases:
heart failure, renal failure, failure rate, Respiratory failure, cardiac failure, more...

Adjectives:
renal, congestive, acute, chronic, cardiac, respiratory, complete, total, hepatic, severe, left

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark red,     olive,     maroon,     charcoal,     rust,     mustard,     taupe



▸ Words similar to failure

▸ Usage examples for failure

▸ Idioms related to failure

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular adjectives describing failure

▸ Words that often appear near failure

▸ Rhymes of failure

▸ Invented words related to failure

Similar:
nonstarter, loser, unsuccessful person, failing, unsuccess, success, inability, refusal, malfunction, doomed, more...

Opposite:
success, achievement, victory, triumph, accomplishment

Types:
mechanical, electrical, structural, human, more...

Phrases:
heart failure, renal failure, failure rate, Respiratory failure, cardiac failure, market failure, Liver failure, failure mode, hepatic failure, Kidney failure, power failure, crop failure, organ failure, more...

Adjectives:
renal, congestive, acute, chronic, cardiac, respiratory, complete, total, hepatic, severe, left

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark red,     olive,     maroon,     charcoal,     rust,     mustard,     taupe



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "failure" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Compound Your Joy   Threepeat   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!