failure
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
Other meanings
A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
Related words
- failureless
- failureproof
- girlfailure
- microfailure
- nonfailure
- postfailure
- failure drill
- failure rate
- government failure
- mean distance between failure
- mean time to failure
- single point of failure
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "faillir" (to fail).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “failure” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.