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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman failer, from Old French faillir (“to fail”).
Pronunciation
Noun
failure (countable and uncountable, plural failures)
- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
2023 April 21, Li Zhou, “Why SpaceX doesn't see its rocket explosion as a failure. Experts also viewed the test as a valuable way to see what works — and what doesn't.”, in Vox, retrieved 2023-04-22:What exactly is a "successful failure" in rocket science? A so-called "successful failure" is one where important lessons can be gleaned for future tests and where the risks of harm are low, experts say.
- (pathology) A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
- heart failure
- congestive heart failure
- liver failure
- kidney failure
- Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:But as with individual train failures you have to tackle every one as it arises and assume it will happen again, which it will, if you don't do something about it.
- Bankruptcy.
Synonyms
- (opposite of success): fail (noun)
- (person incapable of success): loser
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Translations
state or condition opposite of success
- Albanian: dështim (sq) m
- Arabic: فَشَل m (fašal), إِخْفَاق m (ʔiḵfāq)
- Armenian: անհաջողություն (hy) (anhaǰoġutʿyun), ձախողում (hy) (jaxoġum)
- Basque: porrot
- Belarusian: права́л m (pravál), крах m (krax), няўда́ча f (njaŭdáča)
- Bulgarian: неуспех (bg) m (neuspeh), несполука (bg) f (nespoluka)
- Catalan: fracàs (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎤᏄᎸᎲᏍᎩ (unulvhvsgi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 失敗/失败 (zh) (shībài)
- Czech: nezdar m, neúspěch (cs) m, selhání (cs) n
- Danish: fiasko (da) c
- Dutch: mislukking (nl) f, faling (nl) f, fout (nl)
- Esperanto: malsukceso
- Estonian: ebaõnnestumine
- Finnish: epäonnistuminen (fi), moka (fi) (informal), munaus (fi) (informal), tyriminen (fi) (informal), töppäys (informal), möhläys (fi) (informal), tunarointi (fi) (informal), kömmähdys (fi)
- French: échec (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Misserfolg (de) m, Ausfall (de) m, Verschlechterung (de) f, Misslingen (de) n, Versagen (de) n, Fehlschlag (de) m
- Greek: αποτυχία (el) f (apotychía)
- Ancient: ἀποτυχία f (apotukhía), ἀστόχημα n (astókhēma), ἀστοχία f (astokhía)
- Hebrew: כישלון \ כִּשָּׁלוֹן m (kishalón)
- Hindi: असफलता (hi) (asphaltā), नाकामयाबी (nākāmyābī)
- Hungarian: kudarc (hu), bukás (hu), felsülés (hu), fiaskó (hu)
- Ido: fiasko (io)
- Indonesian: gagal (id), kegagalan (id)
- Irish: meath m
- Italian: fallimento (it) m, insuccesso (it) f, avaria (it) f, fiasco (it) m
- Japanese: 失敗 (ja) (しっぱい, shippai)
- Kabuverdianu: fadja
- Kazakh: сәтсіздік (sätsızdık)
- Khmer: កំហក (km) (kâmhâk), ចំណាញ់ (km) (cɑmnañ), រិត្ត (rɨttɑɑ)
- Korean: 실패(失敗) (ko) (silpae)
- Kyrgyz: жол болбоо (ky) (jol bolboo), иш ордунан чыкпай калуу (ky) (iş ordunan cıkpay kaluu)
- Latin: dēliquium n, dēfectiō f
- Latvian: neizdošanās, neveiksme
- Lithuanian: nepasisekimas m
- Macedonian: неуспех m (neuspeh)
- Malay: kegagalan (ms)
- Maori: mūhoretanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fiasko m, misære m
- Old English: āteorung, ġeteorung f
- Persian: شکست (fa) (šekast)
- Polish: niepowodzenie (pl) n, porażka (pl) f, nieudacznictwo n
- Portuguese: falha (pt) f, fracasso (pt) m, falhanço m
- Romanian: eșec (ro) n
- Russian: прова́л (ru) m (provál), крах (ru) m (krax), неуда́ча (ru) f (neudáča), неуспе́х (ru) m (neuspéx)
- Sanskrit: असिद्धि (sa) f (asiddhi)
- Scottish Gaelic: fàilligeadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: не̏успех m, не̏успјех m
- Roman: nȅuspeh (sh) m, nȅuspjeh (sh) m
- Slovak: nezdar m, krach m, neúspech m
- Slovene: neuspeh m
- Spanish: fallo (es) m, fracaso (es) m
- Swahili: ushinde
- Swedish: misslyckande (sv) n
- Tagalog: pagkabigo (tl)
- Telugu: వైఫల్యం (vaiphalyaṁ)
- Turkish: başarısızlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: крах m (krax), прова́л m (provál), невда́ча f (nevdáča)
- Vietnamese: thất bại (vi)
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object or person incapable of success
- Bulgarian: неуда́чник (bg) m (neudáčnik), прова́л (bg) m (provál)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: mislukkeling (nl) m or f (person), mislukking (nl) f (thing)
- Esperanto: fuŝaĵo
- Finnish: romu (fi), susi (fi) (object); epäonnistuja (fi) (person), tunari (fi) (informal, person), tohelo (fi) (informal, person), luuseri (fi) (informal, person)
- French: daube (fr) f, flop (fr) m (commercial failure), navet (fr) m (unsuccessful movie), raté (fr) m
- German: Versager (de) m, Versagerin (de) f, Niete (de) f
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: sikertelen (hu), pályatévesztett (hu), tehetségtelen (hu) (person), csődtömeg (hu)
- Indonesian: pecundang (id) (person, colloquial), bedebah (id) (person, pejorative)
- Italian: fiasco (it) m
- Japanese: 失敗作 (しっぱいさく, shippaisaku) (creation)
- Latvian: neveiksme f
- Polish: nieudacznik (pl) m, brak (pl) m (thing)
- Portuguese: fracassado (pt) m
- Russian: фиа́ско (ru) n (fiásko), неуда́чник (ru) m (neudáčnik), прова́л (ru) m (provál)
- Spanish: fiasco (es) m, fracasado (es) m, fracaso (es) m
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