Failure

Definition: Failure

Failure

Noun

1. An act that fails.

2. An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.

3. Lack of success.

4. A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently.

5. An unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call".

6. Loss of ability to function normally.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "failure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Failure \Fail"ure\, noun. [From Fail.]. (references)

Computing

19th Century Satire

Biographical Satire

Building & Civil Engineering

Chemical Industry

Dream Interpretation

Engineering & Technology

Geography

Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Meteorology & Standards

Post & Telecom

Public Administration

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Failure

Adversity

Noun: adversity, evil; failure; 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.

Dereliction of Duty

Noun: dereliction of duty; fault; (guilt); sin; (vice); non-observance, non-performance; neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; dead letter.

Guilt

Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum.

Impotence

Inefficacy; (inutility); failure.

Nonobservance

Noun: nonobservance; evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality.

Nonpayment

Insolvency, bankruptcy, failure; insufficiency; run upon a bank; overdrawn account.

Shortcoming

Noun: shortcoming, failure; falling short; Verb: default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.

Incompleteness; imperfection; insufficiency; noncompletion; failure.

Vice

Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.

Crosswords: Failure

Remember George, No man is a failure who has friends (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich)

You're not a failure kid. It's just that your ideas are silly and dumb (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini)

Oh Lisa, trying is just the first step toward failure. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

There is no room for failure now. The innocent must die (Lashou shentan; writing credit: Barry Wong; John Woo)

I don't need it. I'm cloaked in failure! (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

Success or failure will not alter it (THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER; performing artist: Howard Jones)

I ain't no G, I'm just a regular failure (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK)

Folks said that I was a failure (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly)

In fact, his name became to synonmous with failure, that for years to come, (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

Failure is opportunity in disguise. (references; author: unknown)

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. (references; author: unknown)

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. (references; author: unknown)

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. (references; author: unknown)

A Successful Failure (1934)

The Fighting Failure (1926)

A Self-Made Failure (1924)

The Failure (1917)

A Successful Failure (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Heart Failure (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Crashing Without Burning: Life After Failure (reference)

• The Road to Success is Paved with Failure : How Hundreds of Famous People Triumphed Over Inauspicious Beginnings, Crushing Rejection, Humiliating Defeats and Other Speed Bumps Along Life's Highway (reference)

• The French and the Dardanelles: a study of failure in the conduct of war (reference)

• Success With Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those with Congestive Heart Failure (reference)

• Czechs Under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National Resistance, 1939-42 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Conference Proceedings : International Symposium For Testing And Failure Analysis (reference)

• Congestive Heart Failure (reference)

• Engineering Failure Analysis (reference)

• European Journal Of Heart Failure (reference)

• Practical Failure Analysis (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hand Maid May - Memory Failure (Vol. 3) (reference)

• Breaking the Spirit of Failure (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Failure (reference)

• Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• American Tack 71136 3-Way Power Failure Light (reference)

• Garrity Industries E300G Power Failure Rechargeable Flashlight (reference)

• Intermatic PR3C Emergency Power Failure Safety Light (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bilby tower failure at Station Flatlick due to tornado Triangulation party of E. L. Jones. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William Belden ejects from his Douglas A-4E "Skyhawk" attack aircraft (Bureau # 150117) as it rolls into the carrier's port catwalk after suffering a brake failure following recovery, 2 July 1970. LtJG Belden ejected safely and was rescued by Shangri-La's helicopter. Credit: NAVY.

As a man he was a complete failure, but as a gull -- well he believed he might have been a pretty decent -- gull. Credit: Library of Congress.

Inviting the undertaker. Ignore the fact that pedestrians die in rural districts due to unlighted highways, speeding cars and failure to walk facing the traffic. Be right. Walk left. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ludendorff bridge at Remagen after its capture on March 7, 1945, showing U.S. 1st Army troops crossing the Rhine into Germany. Failure of the Germans to destroy the bridge gave U.S. forces their first foothold east of the Rhine / International News photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

People, some with picket signs, gather outside Lincoln School in Englewood, N.J. protesting the city's failure to end racial segregation. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in. Credit: Library of Congress.

Near Visalia, California. Rehabilitation family. Farm operations changed from failure to success by following plan devised by Rural Rehabilitation supervisor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Due to the failure of congress to appropriate money for public pools in Washington ... Credit: Library of Congress.

McLubberty, himself. "My life has been an awful failure!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax. (reference)

For how can people, when once they understand their system, fail to see in it the best possible plan of the best possible state of society? Hence, they reject all political, and especially all revolutionary, action; they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, and endeavour, by small experiments, necessarily doomed to failure, and by the force of example, to pave the way for the new social Gospel. (reference)

In the event of any failure to carry out such an award, the Council shall propose what steps should be taken to give effect thereto. (reference)

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. (reference)

A childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health. (reference)

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It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again

Even when they fail, they are venerable, and it is perhaps in failure that they have the greater majesty

The imitation was a failure and the owner had known it was a failure

I desire to speak impartially on this point, and as one not interested in the success or failure of the present economical and social arrangements

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Eventually, PSC can cause liver failure. (references)

Failure of an infant to gain weight or grow normally. (references)

Death is usually caused by renal failure or infection. (references)

Business

Market preference is the major indicator for success or failure of any product to enter Thailand. (references)

The role of the Chinese partner in the success or failure of a joint venture cannot be over-emphasized. (references)

This is a last mile access problem caused mainly by the Telcos and the failure or delay to provide the lines. (references)

Children

Turkey

Companies who employ more than 50 employees are required to hire persons with disabilities as 2 percent of their employee pool, although there is no penalty for failure to comply. (references)

Dominican Republic

The ages at which these children work, the hours they work, and their failure to comply with compulsory school attendance all violate the law, but the Government has not been able to combat this practice. (references)

Hungary

The statement followed the publication of a report by the Ombudsman's office that found that the high proportion of Romani children in "special schools" for the mentally disabled was a sign of prejudice and a failure of the public education system. (references)

Civil Liberties

Slovak Republic

The amendment's failure permits allow the continued prosecution of Kratsky. (references)

Ethiopia

In previous years, papers have been shut down for failure to meet this requirement. (references)

Tunisia

The code stipulates fines and confiscation for failure to comply with these provisions. (references)

Discrimination

Hong Kong

In May the UNCESCR concluded that Hong Kong's failure to prohibit race discrimination in the private sector constituted a breach of its obligations under the ICESCR. (references)

Economic History

Dominica

French invasions in 1795 and 1805 ended in failure. (references)

Greece

Some department stores have closed, due to failure to adjust new shopping trends. (references)

Human Rights

Uzbekistan

Judges may be removed for crimes or failure to fulfill their obligations. (references)

Pakistan

Some persons remain in prison after completion of their terms for failure to pay Diyat. (references)

Guatemala

The case before the IACHR for the Government's failure to provide justice remained pending. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

Due partly to the Government's failure to provide adequate medical care as required by law, indigenous people have suffered epidemics of malaria, measles, and tuberculosis. (references)

Japan

In February several nongovernmental groups, including the Ainu Association of Hokkaido and the Citizens' Diplomatic Center for the Rights of Indigenous People, protested the Government's failure to note continuing social and economic discrimination faced by the Ainu in its 2000 report to the CERD. (references)

Minorities

Estonia

The language office liberally grants extensions to persons who can explain their failure to meet the requisite competence level. (references)

Political Economy

MEXICO

USTR cited Mexico in its April 2001 annual "1377" review for failure to meet its commitments under the WTO Basic Telecommunication Agreement. (references)

Guatemala

The MINUGUA noted that the majority of human rights violations were the result of the failure of the state to investigate and punish those who break the law. (references)

Sri Lanka

Arbitrary arrests (including short-term mass arrests and detentions) continued, often accompanied by failure of the security forces to comply with legal protections. (references)

Political Rights

Belgium

Voting in all elections is compulsory, and failure to vote is subject to a nominal fine. (references)

Singapore

In July J.B. Jeyaretnam, an opposition nonelected M.P. from the WP lost an appeal in a defamation suit and was declared bankrupt for failure to pay the damages awarded against him in previous years. (references)

Saint Lucia

The SLP capitalized on the failure of the opposition forces to unite in a national coalition due to a leadership struggle between Odlum, and Sir John Compton, founder of the UWP and a former Prime Minister. (references)

Trade

Bolivia

Imported merchandise may be considered abandoned either by an explicit request or by failure to claim it within the required 90 days. (references)

Greece

Imports of poultry products into Greece from the U.S. were suspended due to failure of the U.S.-E.U. Veterinary Equivalency agreement to include poultry. (references)

Denmark

Exporters, however, should carefully follow importer's instructions because failure to do so can cause customs delays and extra expenses which may harm future business. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

Restaurants tend to be small private enterprises (virtually no franchises) and have a high failure rate. (references)

Kenya

Safaris are best undertaken with a minimum of two vehicles so that there is a backup in case of mechanical failure or other emergency. (references)

Women

Equatorial Guinea

A 2000 study by CNDH found that as many as 20 persons were detained solely for failure to repay dowries. (references)

Worker Rights

Bangladesh

Workers have the right to strike in the event of a failure to settle. (references)

Colombia

The ILO's June report noted the Government's continuing failure to address these criticisms. (references)

China

She died the same day that she was moved to a hospital from Drapchi Prison, reportedly from respiratory and heart failure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "failure": abnormal failure ♦ action for failure to fulfil obligation ♦ acute kidney failure ♦ acute renal failure ♦ assessed failure rate ♦ assessed mean time to failure ♦ bank failure ♦ be a failure ♦ brake failure ♦ Cardiovascular failure ♦ cascade failure ♦ catastrophic failure ♦ cause failure ♦ causing failure ♦ chronic kidney failure ♦ chronic renal failure ♦ circulatory failure ♦ cohesive failure ♦ communication failure ♦ confession of failure ♦ Congestive heart failure ♦ coronary failure ♦ crop failure ♦ current failure ♦ dam failure ♦ Dental Restoration Failure ♦ Diastolic heart failure ♦ discharge failure ♦ doomed to failure ♦ drift failure ♦ electrical failure ♦ engine failure ♦ equipment failure ♦ Equipment Failure Analysis ♦ extrapolated failure rate ♦ extrapolated mean time to failure ♦ facility failure ♦ failure criteria ♦ failure in time ♦ failure load ♦ failure of heart ♦ failure prediction ♦ failure rate ♦ failure recovery ♦ failure to appear ♦ failure to appreciate ♦ failure to comply with the regulations governing the protection of tenants of domestic and commercial properties ♦ failure to pay ♦ failure to pay on time ♦ failure to perform sex ♦ failure to prevent an illegal publication ♦ Failure to Thrive ♦ failure tree analysis ♦ frustrated failure ♦ Fulminant Hepatic Failure ♦ function degrading failure ♦ function permitting failure ♦ function preventing failure ♦ general Protection Failure ♦ general shear failure ♦ gradual failure ♦ heart failure ♦ human failure probability ♦ induced failure ♦ invisible failure ♦ Kidney Failure ♦ left ventricular failure ♦ light failure ♦ Liver Failure ♦ married failure ♦ mean time between failure ♦ mean time between failure observed ♦ mishandling failure ♦ misuse failure ♦ motor failure ♦ Multiple Organ Failure ♦ negation by failure ♦ passive failure of automatic systems ♦ power failure ♦ power failure point ♦ predicted failure rate ♦ Prosthesis Failure ♦ renal failure ♦ Respiratory failure ♦ right ventricular failure ♦ rock failure ♦ spark failure ♦ sudden failure ♦ suffer a failure ♦ Systolic heart failure ♦ task failure probability ♦ therapeutic failure ♦ Treatment Failure ♦ undetected failure ♦ undetected failure time ♦ unexpected failure. Additional references.

Beginning with "failure": failure-directed testing, failure-driven, Failure-in-england.

Ending with "failure": retrieval-failure.

Containing "failure": lf-you-really-loved-me-you'd-love-my-failure-too.

Afrikaans

bankrot (bankrupt, bankruptcy). (various references)

Albanian

falimentim (bankruptcy, crash, dilapidation), rrëzim (canting, collapse, crash, decay, demolition, deposition, destruction, dethronement, eradiation, fall, plough, plow, plump, prostration), punë e dështuar, prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), neglizhim, mossukses (bad luck, ill luck, no go, reverse, rot), moskryerje, mbetje (drift, odds and ends, refuse, remnant, residue, shorts, tailings), ligështim (falter), lëshim (coast, concession, discharge, droop, drop, emission, flaccidity, flagging, funk, issuance, issue, launch, launching, laxity, laxness, megrims, profligacy, release, relief, sag, tolerance), dobësim (breakdown, debilitation, decline, decrepitude, depravation, dilution, ebb, emaciation, emasculation, enervation, exhaustion, flagging, wane, weakening), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse), dështak (abortion, loser), dëmtim (damnification, defacement, defect, deterioration, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, lesion, Mar, wound), avari (breakdown, hitch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), ‏قصور (inability, insufficiency), ‏تعب (fatigue, go flat out, grow tired, languishment, languor, lassitude, pan, punish, stress, take trouble, tell on, tire, tiredness, toil, try, tucker, weariness, weary), ‏تخلف عن القيام بكذا, ‏عجز (balk, buttock, decrepitude, deficiency, disability, emasculation, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage), ‏ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ‏خيبة (discomfiture, fiasco), ‏إفلاس (bankruptcy, bust, fall, going into liquidation, insolvency, smash), ‏إخفاق (baulk, bust, deadlock, fizzle out, frost, lemon, miscarriage, miss, screw, setback, smash, turkey, unsuccess, wall, wrack), ‏شخص مخفق (flop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалит (crash, ruin, smash, smash up), отпадане (decay, decline, droping out, fall out, falling away, obsolescence), несъстоятелност (insolvency), неустойка (default, forfeit), неуспех (baffle, down, fiasco, fizzle, miscarriage, mishap, repulse, reverse, slip up, unsuccess), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, lack, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage, want), провал (bankruptcy, collapse, downfall, mucker, ruin, sucks, unsuccess), поражение (backdown, baffle, beating, defeat, injury, knockout, lesion, overturn, repulse, reverse, smash, walloping, whipping), повреда (breakdown, conk, damage, defect, fault, flaw, hurt, injury, lesion, mischief, scathe, trouble). (various references)

Chinese 

失败 (Abortive, Defeat, defeatist, Fail, Failed, Failing, Miscarried, miscarry, Miscarrying). (various references)

Czech

fiasko (disaster, fiasco, flop, squib, wash out, washout), zanedbání (neglect, nonfeasance, omission), selhání (lapse, malfunction, misfire), porucha (breakdown, bug, defect, derangement, disorder, fault, lesion), opomenutí (laches, neglect, silence), nezdar (knock, miscarriage, reversal, set back, setback), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want), neúspìch (reverse), krach (bust, collapse, smash). (various references)

Danish

fejl (aberration, error, mistake), forstyrrelse (disorder, disordering, disturbance, incident, interference, jam, jamming, operating trouble, perturbation, to disturb, trouble), funktionssvigt, maskinstop (breakdown, trouble), brud (bride, fiancée, fragment, lump, piece), driftsforstyrrelse (disturbance, operating trouble, trouble), havari (average, breakdown, trouble), jordfaldshul (collapse sinkhole, dolina, doline, leach hole, rock failure, shakehole, sink, sinkhole, solution sinkhole, sotch), abort (abortion, miscarriage), maskinskade (breakdown, trouble), tegnforstyrrelse (extra, fade), materielfejl (hard error, hardware error), motorskade (breakdown, trouble), motorstop (breakdown, flame out, trouble), sammenbrud (breakdown, break-up, collapse, crash, crushing, settlement, sinking, subsidence, trouble), sammenstyrtning (collapse, rock failure, sinking), standsning (halt, stop), svigt (breakdown), svigten, maskinfejl (hard error, hardware error). (various references)

Dutch

flop (abortion, fiasco), fiasco (abortion, fiasco), echec (abortion, fiasco), debâcle (abortion, decay, fiasco). (various references)

Esperanto

fiasko (abortion, fiasco), malsukcesego (flop), bankroto (bankruptcy). (various references)

Faeroese

miseydna (abortion, fiasco), húsagangur (bankruptcy). (various references)

Finnish

fiasko (fiasco), murtuma (breach, break, fracture), epäonnistunut yritys, häiriö (atmospherics, disorder, disturbance, inconvenience, interference), konerikko (breakdown), konkurssi (bankruptcy), laiminlyönti (neglect, negligence, omission), epäonnistuminen, luhistuma (rock failure), ylimääräinen miinus (fade), romahdus (breakdown, collapse, crash), sortuma (rock failure), vararikko (bankruptcy, insolvency), vaurioituminen, vika (defect, deficiency, fault, flaw), vikaantuminen (breach of security), vioittuminen, laiterikko (breakdown, trouble). (various references)

French

faillite (fall), dérangement (fault, fault condition), défaillance (failing, fainting), avortement, échec. (various references)

Frisian

fallisemint (bankruptcy), bankerot (bankrupt, bankruptcy). (various references)

German

Ausfall (blackout, breakdown, cancellation, dropping out, loss, lunge, non-departure, omission, pass, retirement, Sally, sortie, stoppage, thrust), Versagen (be a failure, break down, breakdown, defection, deny, fail, failing, flop, give out, go, malfunction, refuse, reject, to break down, to flop, withhold), versager (abnegator, abnegators, dead beat, flop), misserfolg (flop, Miss), Mißerfolg (abortion, fiasco), fehlschlag (defeat), Betriebsausfall. (various references)

Greek 

αποτυχία (a near miss, abortion, defection, dud, flivver, flop, flunk, miscarriage, misfire, non event, setback, washout). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממע�" (lapse, slipping), מע�" (lapse, slipping), לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), שבר (break, breakage, breaking, collapse, crisis, fracture, mishap, rupture, splinter), פשיטת ר�'ל (bankruptcy, insolvency), כישלון, כשלון (abortion, downfall, fail, fiasco, stumbling), כשל (failing, lapse, slip), �"כשלות (failing), �"חי (destruction, downfall). (various references)

Hungarian

hiba (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blooper, blue, bobble, clinker, default, demerit, error, failing, fault, flaw, flub-up, glitch, inaccuracy, lapse, malformation, mischief, mistake, shortcoming, trouble, wrong), balsiker (miscarriage, wash-out), szervi elégtelenség, pályatévesztett ember, mulasztás (default, fault, malpractice, omission), meghibásodás (foul-up, malfunction), megbukás, leromlás (ageing, cachexy), kudarc (abortion, beating, bust, defeat, discomfiture, fiasco, fizzle, kick in the pants, miscarriage, repulse, set-back, squib, throw back), elromlás (corruption), elmulasztás (omission), elégtelenség (defect, deficiency, inadequacy, inefficiency, insufficiency, shortcoming, shortfall). (various references)

Icelandic

fósturlát (abortion, miscarriage). (various references)

Indonesian

kegagalan (abortive attempt, bust). (various references)

Italian

fallimento (abortion, bankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, crackup, defeat, failing, fiasco, miscarriage, smashup, washout), guasto (addle, addled, bad, breakdown, broken, broken down, damage, damaged, defective, fault, out of order, rotten, trouble, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

不覚 (blunder, defeat, indiscretion, mistake, negligence), 喧嘩 (brawl, quarrel), 外れ (end, extremity, miss, outskirts, tip, verge), 失態 (discredit, disgrace, error, fault, mismanagement), 失敗　 (blunder, mistake), 失敗 (blunder, mistake), 不合� � (disqualification, rejection), 不良 (badness, delinquent, inferiority), 後れ (backwardness, defeat, lag), 不首尾 (disfavour, disgrace, fizzle), 不結果 (poor results), 不成立 (rejection, rupture), 不成績 (bad record, poor result), 不成功 (abortive), 不�"たり (unpopularity), 失�" (discredit, disgrace, error, fault, mismanagement), � �綻 (bankruptcy), 蹉跌 (setback, stumbling), 齟齬 (conflict, contradiction, discord, discrepancy, frustration, inconsistency), 落第 (dropping out of a class), 落後者 (dropout, straggler), �'星 (black dot, black spot, bull's eye), �'円 (black dot, black spot, bull's eye), 出来損い (dead loss, good-for-nothing, washout), �"�餅 (collapse, fiasco, rice-cake painting, something of little value), 出来損ない (badly done, good for nothing), フェーリング反応 (a feint, face, facial, fader, fail, fail-safe, fair, fair catch, fair copy, fair play, fair sex, fairway, fairy, fairy tale, fairyland, fake, fare, fear, feather, feather plane, feathercut, Fehling's reaction, phase, phaser, phasing, phasor), 損じ (error, slip), 故障 (accident, break-down, out of order), 減退 (decline, ebb, loss), 断 , 誤作動 (malfunction), �'丸 (black dot, black spot, bull's eye). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふせいりつ (rejection, rupture), はずれ (end, extremity, miss, outskirts, tip, verge), はた�" (bankruptcy), け�"か (brawl, flower offering, nut, prefecture, price of a cocoon, quarrel), �'�"たい (decline, ebb, loss, one's home unit), らく� い (dropping out of a class), らく�"しゃ (dropout, outcast, straggler), �"しょう (accident, boasting, break-down, call by name, calling out, exaggeration, lakes and marshes, old name, out of order, page, pepper), �"さどう (malfunction), できそ�"ない (badly done, dead loss, good for nothing, good-for-nothing, washout), ふけっか (poor results), ふあたり (unpopularity), ふりょう (badness, delinquent, inferiority, poor catch), � �" (body, company, flight of steps, grade, group, level, mandala, party, platform, podium, rank, rostrum, stair, step, troupe), ふかく (angle of dip, blunder, defeat, depression, indiscretion, mistake, negligence), おくれ (backwardness, defeat, delay, lag), ふせい�"う (abortive, bungling, clumsy, stainless steel), ふせいせき (bad record, poor result), ふしゅび (disfavour, disgrace, fizzle), さてつ (iron sand, setback, stumbling), そ�"じ (error, slip), くろぼし (black dot, black spot, bull's eye), くろまる (black dot, black spot, bull's eye, to become black, to blacken), そ�" (a parent language, conflict, contradiction, discord, discrepancy, frustration, inconsistency), しっぱい (blunder, mistake), しったい (discredit, disgrace, error, fault, measure against unemployment, mismanagement), フェイリュア , がへい (collapse, fiasco, rice-cake painting, something of little value), がべい (collapse, fiasco, rice-cake painting, something of little value), ふ�"うかく (disqualification, rejection). (various references)

Korean 

실패 (Fail, Failing). (various references)

Manx

rey (era), failleil (decline, fail, fall short), brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, fracture, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, stump, violation, wane). (various references)

Norwegian

fiasko (flop), falitt, svikt. (various references)

Papiamen

frakaso (abortion, fiasco), fayit (bankrupt, bankruptcy), aborto (abortion, miscarriage). (various references)

Pig Latin

ailurefay.(various references)

Portuguese

falha (absence, brack, break, fail, imperfection, lack, miss, muff, rift, rub, shortcoming). (various references)

Romanian

falie (fault, fissure, yawn), faliment (bankruptcy, insolvency), fiasco (abortion, fiasco, naught, wash out), insucces (abortion, bad job, flop, licking, Miss, plough, rebuff), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, cropper, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, fall, labefaction, lapse, plump, rot, spill, Turkey), defecţiune (defection), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, fiasco, fizzle, flop, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, set back, wash out), avarie (average, break down, casualty, damage, fault, injury, wreck), greş, slãbire (abatement, atrophy, attenuation, decay, dilution, emasculation, enervation, fading, failing, labefaction, looseness, maceration, slendering, stringency, weakening), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), nereuşitã (break down, fail, failing, lame duck, miscarriage, Miss, naught, phlizz, rottenness), panã (arrow, break down, chock, cleat, cotter, feather, Gib, injury, jaw, peg, pen, pick, pinion, plug, plume, puncture, quill, quill pen, Spike, wedge), ratat (wash out), rupturã (breach, break, breaking, cleavage, discontinuance, disruption, hole, inrush, rag, rend, rent, rift, rip, rupture, slit, tear), sfârşealã (break down, exhaustion, flaccidity, flagging, weakness, weariness), ghinionist (lame duck, luckless, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unlucky man). (various references)

Russian 

банкротство (bankruptcy, business failures, crash, insolvency, smash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

propast (bane, calamity, downfall, perdition, precipice, ruin, ruination, smash, wrack, wreck), neuspeh (abort, boner, bust, fizzle, muff), nedostatak (blemish, defect, defiance, deficiency, demerit, failing, fault, imperfection, lack, minus, shortage, want), kvar (breakage, breakdown, bug, damage, malfunction, trouble). (various references)

Spanish

fracaso (abortion, breakdown, bust, defecation, departure, desperation, failing, fiasco, flop, flunk, miscarriage, Miss, trouble, Turkey, washout), fallo (adjudication, decision, fault, findings, hole, judgement, judgment, order, rule, ruling, shortcoming, trouble, verdict), falla (fault, flaw, shift, void), bancarrota quiebra (bankruptcy), avería (average, breakdown, damage, fault, trouble). (various references)

Swedish

fel (aberration, Amiss, blemish, corrigendum, defect, demerit, error, errors, failing, fault, flaw, foul, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, out, shortcoming, trouble, vice, wrong), misslyckande (abortion, bomb, bust, fiasco, frost, naught, shortcoming), fallissemang (bankruptcy, crash), bankrutt (bankrupt, bankruptcy, kaput, ruined). (various references)

Thai

ผู้ที่ล้มเหลว, ความล้มเหลว (catastrophe, collapse, failing, falling, flop, naught). (various references)

Turkish

fiyasko (bomb, bust, debacle, dud, fiasco, fizzle, flivver, frost, Turkey, washout), başarısızlık (abortion, balk, bankruptcy, baulk, bomb, bust, collapse, cropper, defeat, dud, fizzle, flivver, frost, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, miscarriage, reverse, setback, throwback, unsuccess, washout), batma (burst up, decline, dip, ingrowth, set, sinking, sting, submersion), bozukluk (being broken down, chicken feed, coin, decomposition, defect, deformity, distortion, disturbance, faultiness, foulness, hilliness, irregularity, putrescence, rupture, small chance, taint, unsoundness, upset), bulunmama (absence), dinme (alleviation, ease, let up, quiet), eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, failing, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void), aksatma (damp), iflas (bankruptcy, bust, crash, in carey street, insolvency, ruin, smash, smash up), yokluk (absence, absentness, dearth, exiguity, famine, hardship, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, penury, poverty, privation, shortage, Strait, straits, tightness, want), ihmal (carelessness, criminal neglect, delinquency, disregard, forgetfulness, inattention, neglect, negligence, omission, remissness, shortcoming), kıtlık (dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, paucity, penury, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slimness, sparseness, sparsity), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice), sekte (interruption, pause, standstill), tükenme (being exhausted, exhaustion, petering), yapmama (nonperformance, non-performance), yetmezlik (insufficiency, shortness), hayal kırıklığı (chagrin, comedown, defeat, disappointment, disillusion, disillusionment, frost, letdown, non event, nonevent, sell, take in). (various references)

Turkmen 

sowsuzlyk. (various references)

Ukrainian

неуспіх, невиконання (non-completion, non-fulfillment, non-fulfilment, non-performance), недостача (absence, dearth, lack, need, non-availability, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, want), провал (defection, fail, fiasco, frost, washout). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc thất bại, sự phá sản, sự không xảy ra, sự hỏng (discomfiture), cố gắng không th� nh công sự thi hỏng sự vỡ nợ. (various references)

Welsh

methiant, meth (miss), annhyciant, anghaffael (defect, hindrance, mishap), aflwyddiant (calamity, misfortune), aflwydd (calamity, misfortune), aball (destruction, postilence). (various references)

defectio, defectione, defectionem, defectus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "failure": failures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Failure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afailure, failkure, failuer, failur, Faipule, faiture, falure, familure, Fatipur, fayllard, fayourn, Fazlur, Fuiloro, Raizure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: earful, ferial, ferula, ireful.

-2 letters: afire, ariel, aurei, farle, feral, feria, feuar, filar, filer, flair, flare, flier, frail, lifer, rifle, uraei, ureal, urial.

-3 letters: alef, alif, aril, earl, fail, fair, fare, farl, feal, fear, fiar, fila, file, fire, flea, flue, frae, fuel, furl, ilea, lair, lari, leaf, lear, liar, lief, lier, lieu, life.

+1 letter: failures, faultier, filature, fraulein, weariful.

+2 letters: filatures, flauntier, frauleins, lifeguard, qualifier, requalify, ultrafine.

+3 letters: fluoridate, fluorinate, lifeguards, luciferase, painfuller, prequalify, qualifiers, quatrefoil, ultrafiche, wearifully.

+4 letters: beautifuler, calciferous, cauliflower, centrifugal, disgraceful, faultfinder, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, fluorinates, formularies, formularize, frugalities, irrefutable, irrefutably, lactiferous, lifeguarded, luciferases, nefariously, quatrefoils, requalified, requalifies, superfamily, superficial, ultrafiches, unclarified, unfaltering.

+5 letters: cauliflowers, centrifugals, disregardful, faultfinders, figuratively, fluidextract, formularized, formularizer, formularizes, furazolidone, insufferable, insufferably, interfaculty, interfluvial, lifeguarding, prequalified, prequalifies, quarterfinal, requalifying, salutiferous, transfusible, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, ultrarefined, unflattering, unforgivable, unprofitable, unverifiable, wearifulness.