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failure
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 failure
An act that fails.
Roget 927:
dereliction of duty;
fault
etc.
(guilt)
947;
sin
etc.
(vice)
945;
non-observance,
non-performance;
neglect,
relaxation,
infraction,
violation,
transgression,
failure,
evasion;
dead letter.
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Roget 947:
guilt,
guiltiness;
culpability;
criminality,
criminousness†;
deviation from rectitude
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
sinfulness
etc.
(vice)
945.
misconduct,
misbehavior,
misdoing,
misdeed;
malpractice,
fault,
sin,
error,
transgression;
dereliction,
delinquency;
indiscretion,
lapse,
slip,
trip,
faux pas [Fr.],
peccadillo;
flaw,
blot,
omission;
failing,
failure;
break,
bad break! [U.S.],
capital crime,
delictum [Lat.].
offense,
trespass;
misdemeanor,
misfeasance,
misprision;
malefaction,
malfeasance,
malversation;
crime,
felony.
enormity,
atrocity,
outrage;
deadly sin,
mortal sin;
deed without a name"
[Macbeth].
corpus delicti.
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Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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Roget 773:
nonobservance
etc.
772;
evasion,
inobservance,
failure,
omission,
neglect,
laches [Law],
laxity,
informality.
infringement,
infraction;
violation,
transgression;
piracy.
retraction,
retractation†,
repudiation,
nullification;
protest;
forfeiture.
lawlessness;
disobedience
etc.
742;
bad faith
etc.
940.
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Roget 735:
adversity,
evil
etc.
619;
failure
etc.
732;
bad luck,
ill luck,
evil luck,
adverse luck,
hard fortune,
hard hap,
hard luck,
hard lot;
frowns of fortune;
evil dispensation,
evil star,
evil genius†;
vicissitudes of life,
ups and downs of life,
broken fortunes;
hard case,
hard lines,
hard life;
sea of troubles;
peck of troubles;
hell upon earth;
slough of despond.
trouble,
hardship,
curse,
blight,
blast,
load,
pressure.
pressure of the times,
iron age,
evil day,
time out of joint;
hard times,
bad times,
sad times;
rainy day,
cloud,
dark cloud,
gathering clouds,
ill wind;
visitation,
infliction;
affliction
etc.
(painfulness)
830;
bitter pill;
care,
trial;
the sport of fortune.
mishap,
mischance,
misadventure,
misfortune;
disaster,
calamity,
catastrophe;
accident,
casualty,
cross,
reverse,
check,
contretemps,
rub;
backset†,
comedown,
setback [U.S.].
losing game;
falling
etc.
v.;
fall,
downfall;
ruination,
ruinousness;
undoing;
extremity;
ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162.
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Roget 699:
unskillfulness
etc.
adj.;
want of skill
etc.
698;
incompetence,
incompentency†;
inability,
infelicity,
indexterity†,
inexperience;
disqualification,
unproficiency†;
quackery.
folly,
stupidity
etc.
499;
indiscretion
etc.
(rashness)
863;
thoughtlessness
etc.
(inattention)
458
(neglect)
460;
sabotage.
mismanagement,
misconduct;
impolicy†;
maladministration;
misrule,
misgovernment,
misapplication,
misdirection,
misfeasance;
petticoat government.
absence of rule,
rule of thumb;
bungling
etc.
v.;
failure
etc.
732;
screw loose: too many cooks.
blunder
etc.
(mistake)
495;
etourderie gaucherie [Fr.],
act of folly,
balourdise†;
botch,
botchery†;
bad job,
sad work.
sprat sent out to catch a whale,
much ado about nothing,
wild-goose chase.
bungler
etc.
701;
fool
etc.
501.
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Roget 158:
impotence;
inability,
disability;
disablement,
impuissance,
imbecility;
incapacity,
incapability;
inaptitude,
ineptitude,
incompetence,
unproductivity†;
indocility†;
invalidity,
disqualification;
inefficiency,
wastefulness.
telum imbelle [Lat.],
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
blank,
blank cartridge,
flash in the pan,
vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.],
dead letter,
bit of waste paper,
dummy;
paper tiger;
Quaker gun.
inefficacy
etc.
(inutility)
645†;
failure
etc.
732.
helplessness
etc.
adj.;
prostration,
paralysis,
palsy,
apoplexy,
syncope,
sideration†,
deliquium [Lat.],
collapse,
exhaustion,
softening of the brain,
inanition;
emasculation,
orchiotomy [Med.],
orchotomy [Med.].
cripple,
old woman,
muff,
powder puff,
creampuff,
pussycat,
wimp,
mollycoddle;
eunuch.
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Roget 304:
shortcoming,
failure;
falling short
etc.
v.;
default,
defalcation;
leeway;
labor in vain,
no go.
incompleteness
etc.
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
failure
etc.
732.
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Nederlands: deconfiture, echec, fiasco, flop, mislukking, sof, wanprestatie, zeper
2 failure
An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.
Pools: klęska, porażka, przegrana
3 failure
4 failure
A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently.
synoniemen: loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person.
Nederlands: kneus, kneusje, loser, mislukkeling, pechvogel, schipbreukeling, schlemiel, verliezer, wanboffer
Pools: nieudałota, nieudacznik
5 failure
6 failure
Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due:
— Fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks.
synoniem: bankruptcy.
Roget 808:
nonpayment;
default,
defalcation;
protest,
repudiation;
application of the sponge†;
whitewashing.
insolvency,
bankruptcy,
failure;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
run upon a bank;
overdrawn account.
waste paper bonds;
dishonored bills,
protested bills;
bogus check,
bogus cheque,
rubber check.
bankrupt,
insolvent,
debtor,
lame duck,
man of straw,
welsher,
stag,
defaulter,
levanter†.
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Roget 732:
failure;
nonsuccess†,
nonfulfillment;
dead failure,
successlessness†;
abortion,
miscarriage;
brutum fulmen
etc.
158 [Lat.];
labor in vain
etc.
(inutility)
645;
no go;
inefficacy†;
inefficaciousness
etc.
adj.;
vain attempt,
ineffectual attempt,
abortive attempt,
abortive efforts;
flash in the pan,
lame and impotent conclusion"
[Othello];
frustration;
slip 'twixt cup and lip
etc.
(disappointment)
509.
blunder
etc.
(mistake)
495;
fault,
omission,
miss,
oversight,
slip,
trip,
stumble,
claudication†,
footfall;
false step,
wrong step;
faux pas [Fr.],
titubation†,
b_evue [Fr.],
faute [Fr.],
lurch;
botchery
etc.
(want of skill)
699†;
scrape,
mess,
fiasco,
breakdown;
flunk [U.S.].
mishap
etc.
(misfortune)
735;
split,
collapse,
smash,
blow,
explosion.
repulse,
rebuff,
defeat,
rout,
overthrow,
discomfiture;
beating,
drubbing;
quietus,
nonsuit†,
subjugation;
checkmate,
stalemate,
fool's mate.
fall,
downfall,
ruin,
perdition;
wreck
etc.
(destruction)
162;
deathblow;
bankruptcy
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
losing game,
affaire flamb_ee.
victim;
bankrupt;
flunker†,
flunky [U.S.].
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Pools: bankructwo, krach, niewypłacalność, plajta, upadłość
7 failure
Loss of ability to function normally.
Nederlands: fout, faling
Pools: niewydolność
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