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failure

an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes"

an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test"

an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose; "the surprise party was a complete failure"

a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently

loss of ability to function normally; "kidney failure"

lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure"

Synonyms:

• Grand Guignol,
• Passion play,
• Sisyphean labor,
• Tom show,
• Waterloo,
• also-ran,
• antimasque,
• arrear,
• arrearage,
• arrears,
• atrocity,
• audience success,
• bad habit,
• bafflement,
• balk,
• ballet,
• bankrupt,
• bankruptcy,
• baseness,
• beating,
• besetting sin,
• betrayed hope,
• blasted expectation,
• blemish,
• blighted hope,
• blow,
• bomb,
• bootlessness,
• botch,
• bouncing check,
• breach,
• breakdown,
• broadcast drama,
• buffet,
• bug,
• burlesque show,
• bust,
• catch,
• charade,
• clerical error,
• cliff hanger,
• closet drama,
• collapse,
• comedown,
• comedy drama,
• conquering,
• conquest,
• corrigendum,
• counterproductiveness,
• counterproductivity,
• crack,
• crash,
• crime,
• crime against humanity,
• critical success,
• cruel disappointment,
• culpa,
• culpable negligence,
• dash,
• dashed hope,
• daytime serial,
• dead duck,
• deadly sin,
• dearth,
• deathblow,
• debacle,
• debasement,
• debilitation,
• decadence,
• decadency,
• decay,
• declension,
• declination,
• decline,
• defalcation,
• default,
• defeat,
• defect,
• defection,
• defectiveness,
• deficiency,
• deficit,
• deformation,
• degeneracy,
• degenerateness,
• degeneration,
• degradation,
• delinquency,
• demotion,
• depravation,
• depravedness,
• depreciation,
• dereliction,
• derogation,
• descent,
• destruction,
• deterioration,
• devolution,
• dialogue,
• disappointment,
• discomfiture,
• disconformity,
• discontinuance,
• disillusionment,
• disregard,
• dissatisfaction,
• documentary drama,
• downfall,
• downtrend,
• downturn,
• downward mobility,
• downward trend,
• drama,
• dramalogue,
• dramatic play,
• dramatic series,
• drawback,
• drop,
• drubbing,
• dud,
• duodrama,
• duologue,
• dying,
• ebb,
• ebbing,
• effeteness,
• endless task,
• enfeeblement,
• enormity,
• epic theater,
• erratum,
• error,
• evil,
• exhaustion,
• experimental theater,
• extravaganza,
• fading,
• failing,
• failure of nerve,
• fall,
• fallen countenance,
• falling short,
• falling-off,
• false alarm,
• fatuity,
• fault,
• faute,
• felony,
• fewness,
• fiasco,
• fizzle,
• flagging,
• flaw,
• flop,
• foible,
• foiling,
• folding,
• forlorn hope,
• frailty,
• frustration,
• futility,
• gasser,
• genocide,
• giveaway,
• guilty act,
• happening,
• hash,
• heavy sin,
• hiding,
• hit,
• hit show,
• hole,
• hope deferred,
• human error,
• imperfection,
• impropriety,
• improvisational drama,
• inadequacy,
• inadvertence,
• inadvertency,
• inanity,
• inattention,
• incompetence,
• incompetent,
• indifference,
• indiscretion,
• ineffectiveness,
• ineffectuality,
• ineffectualness,
• inefficaciousness,
• inefficacy,
• inexecution,
• inexpiable sin,
• inferiority,
• infirmity,
• iniquity,
• injury,
• injustice,
• inobservance,
• insolvency,
• insolvent,
• insolvent debtor,
• insufficiency,
• insufficient funds,
• invalidity,
• involution,
• kink,
• kited check,
• laches,
• lack,
• laissez-faire,
• lambasting,
• lame duck,
• lapse,
• lathering,
• laxity,
• laxness,
• legitimate drama,
• lemon,
• letdown,
• licking,
• little problem,
• littleness,
• loose ends,
• looseness,
• loser,
• loss,
• loss of tone,
• maladroitness,
• malefaction,
• malfeasance,
• malum,
• masque,
• mastery,
• meagerness,
• meanness,
• mediocrity,
• melodrama,
• minor wrong,
• minstrel show,
• miracle,
• miracle play,
• mirage,
• misapprehension,
• miscalculation,
• miscarriage,
• misconception,
• miscount,
• misdeal,
• misdeed,
• misdemeanor,
• misfeasance,
• misidentification,
• misjudgment,
• misplay,
• misprint,
• misquotation,
• misreport,
• miss,
• misstatement,
• mistake,
• misunderstanding,
• misuse,
• monodrama,
• monologue,
• moral flaw,
• morality,
• morality play,
• mortal sin,
• muddle,
• music drama,
• musical revue,
• mystery,
• mystery play,
• neglect,
• neglectfulness,
• negligence,
• no go,
• nonaccomplishment,
• nonachievement,
• nonadherence,
• noncompliance,
• nonconformance,
• nonconformity,
• nonconsummation,
• nondischarging,
• nonentity,
• nonexecution,
• nonfeasance,
• nonfulfillment,
• noninterference,
• nonobservance,
• nonperformance,
• nonrestriction,
• nonsuccess,
• offense,
• omission,
• opera,
• outrage,
• overcoming,
• overdraft,
• overdrawn account,
• overlooking,
• oversight,
• overthrow,
• overturn,
• pageant,
• panel show,
• pantomime,
• pastoral,
• pastoral drama,
• paucity,
• peccadillo,
• peccancy,
• permissiveness,
• pettiness,
• piece,
• play,
• playlet,
• poor stewardship,
• poorness,
• problem,
• problem play,
• procrastination,
• psychodrama,
• quietus,
• quiz show,
• radio drama,
• receivership,
• regression,
• remissness,
• retrocession,
• retrogradation,
• retrogression,
• review,
• revue,
• rift,
• rough edges,
• ruin,
• scantiness,
• sensational play,
• serial,
• setback,
• shabbiness,
• short measure,
• shortage,
• shortcoming,
• shortfall,
• show,
• sin,
• sin of commission,
• sin of omission,
• sinful act,
• sitcom,
• situation comedy,
• sketch,
• skimpiness,
• skit,
• slackness,
• slight,
• slip,
• slippage,
• slump,
• smallness,
• smash,
• snag,
• soap,
• soap opera,
• sociodrama,
• something missing,
• sore disappointment,
• spectacle,
• stage play,
• stage show,
• straight drama,
• subdual,
• subduing,
• subjugation,
• subnormality,
• success,
• suspense drama,
• tableau,
• tableau vivant,
• taint,
• talk show,
• tantalization,
• tease,
• teleplay,
• television drama,
• television play,
• theater of cruelty,
• thrashing,
• tort,
• total theater,
• transgression,
• trespass,
• trimming,
• trip,
• triviality,
• trouncing,
• typo,
• typographical error,
• unconcern,
• underage,
• undoing,
• unfulfillment,
• unobservance,
• unrigorousness,
• unskillfulness,
• unsuccess,
• unsuccessfulness,
• unutterable sin,
• uselessness,
• vanquishment,
• variety show,
• vaudeville,
• vaudeville show,
• vehicle,
• venial sin,
• vice,
• vulgarity,
• vulnerable place,
• wane,
• waning,
• washout,
• weak link,
• weak point,
• weak side,
• weakness,
• whipping,
• word-of-mouth success,
• work,
• work of Penelope,
• wrong