failure
Roget-categorie 732
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.5. Results of voluntary action
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Failure
zelfstandig naamwoord
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.].
werkwoord
fail —
be unsuccessful
etc.
adj. —
not succeed
etc.
731 —
make vain efforts
etc.
n. —
do in vain,
labor in vain,
toil in vain —
flunk [U.S.] —
lose one's labor,
take nothing by one's motion —
bring to naught,
make nothing of —
wash a blackamoor white
etc.
(impossible)
471 —
roll the stones of Sisyphus
etc.
(useless)
645 —
do by halves
etc.
(not complete)
730 —
lose ground
etc.
(recede)
282 —
fall short of
etc.
304.
miss,
miss one's aim,
miss the mark,
miss one's footing,
miss stays —
slip,
trip,
stumble —
make a slip
etc.
n..
blunder
etc.
495,
make a mess of,
make a botch of —
bitch it†,
miscarry,
abort,
go up like a rocket and come down like the stick,
come down in flames,
get shot down,
reckon without one's host —
get the wrong pig by the tail,
get the wrong sow by the ear
etc.
(blunder),
)mismanage)
699.
limp,
halt,
hobble,
titubate† —
fall,
tumble —
lose one's balance —
fall to the ground,
fall between two stools —
flounder,
falter,
stick in the mud,
run aground,
split upon a rock —
beat one's head against a stone wall,
run one's head against a stone wall,
knock one's head against a stone wall,
dash one's head against a stone wall —
break one's back —
break down,
sink,
drown,
founder,
have the ground cut from under one —
get into trouble,
get into a mess,
get into a scrape —
come to grief
etc.
(adversity)
735 —
go to the wall,
go to the dogs,
go to pot —
lick the dust,
bite the dust —
be defeated
etc.
731 —
have the worst of it,
lose the day,
come off second best,
lose —
fall a prey to —
succumb
etc.
(submit)
725 —
not have a leg to stand on.
come to nothing,
end in smoke —
flat out† —
fall to the ground,
fall through,
fall dead,
fall stillborn,
fall flat —
slip through one's fingers —
hang fire,
miss fire —
flash in the pan,
collapse —
topple down
etc.
(descent)
305 —
go to wrack and ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162.
go amiss,
go wrong,
go cross,
go hard with,
go on a wrong tack —
go on ill,
come off ill,
turn out ill,
work ill —
take a wrong term,
take an ugly term —
take an ugly turn,
take a turn for the worse.
be all over with,
be all up with —
explode —
dash one's hopes
etc.
(disappoint)
509 —
defeat the purpose —
sow the wind and reap the whirlwind,
jump out of the frying pan into the fire,
go from the frying pan into the fire.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
unsuccessful,
successless† —
failing,
tripping
etc.
v. —
at fault —
unfortunate
etc.
735.
abortive,
addle,
stillborn —
fruitless,
bootless —
ineffectual,
ineffective,
inconsequential,
trifling,
nugatory —
inefficient
etc.
(impotent)
158 —
insufficient
etc.
640 —
unavailing
etc.
(useless)
645 —
of no effect.
aground,
grounded,
swamped,
stranded,
cast away,
wrecked,
foundered,
capsized,
shipwrecked,
nonsuited† —
foiled —
defeated
etc.
731 —
struck down,
borne down,
broken down —
downtrodden —
overborne,
overwhelmed —
all up with —
ploughed,
plowed,
plucked.
lost,
undone,
ruined,
broken —
bankrupt
etc.
(not paying)
808 —
played out —
done up,
done for —
dead beat,
ruined root and branch,
flambe†,
knocked on the head —
destroyed
etc.
162.
frustrated,
crossed,
unhinged,
disconcerted dashed —
thrown off one's balance,
thrown on one's back,
thrown on one's beam ends† —
unhorsed,
in a sorry plight —
hard hit.
stultified,
befooled†,
dished,
hoist on one's own petard —
victimized,
sacrificed.
wide of the mark
etc.
(error)
495 —
out of one's reckoning
etc.
(inexpectation)
508† —
left in the lurch —
thrown away
etc.
(wasted)
638 —
unattained —
uncompleted
etc.
730.
bijwoord
unsuccessfully
etc.
adj. —
to little or no purpose,
in vain,
re infecta [Lat.].
uitdrukking
the bubble has burst,
the jig is up,"
the game is up"
[Cymbeline];
all is lost —
the devil to pay —
parturiunt montes
etc.
(disappointment)
509 [Lat.] —
dies infaustus [Lat.] —
tout est perdu hors l'honneur [Fr.].
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