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failure
Synonyms and Antonyms of failure
- Your failure to check the batteries in the smoke detector could have tragic results.
compliance, discharge, fulfillment (or fulfilment)
- The failure of the school's fund-raising drive was a big disappointment to all.
- The students' first attempt to build a homemade rocket was a disappointing failure.
corker, crackerjack (also crackajack), dandy, jim-dandy, phenomenon
blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner
- The failure of the potato crop had a devastating effect on the population of Ireland.
crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
- years of prolonged economic depression, when business failures were common
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