Definitions for failure

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failure fail·ure

Spelling: [feyl-yer]

IPA: /ˈfeɪl yər/

Failure is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in failure (aefilru).

Definitions for failure

noun

1. an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success:
2. nonperformance of something due, required, or expected:
3. a subnormal quantity or quality; an insufficiency:
4. deterioration or decay, especially of vigor, strength, etc.:
5. a condition of being bankrupt by reason of insolvency.
6. a becoming insolvent or bankrupt:
7. a person or thing that proves unsuccessful:

Origin of failure

1635-45; fail + -ure; replacing failer a (de)fault Anglo-French (noun use of infinitive), for Old French faillir

Examples for failure

“I think it is important to say it is too soon to judge success or failure,” said Col. Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

Is there not (as the lawyers would style it) a failure of consideration?

failure to bond to their parents was the prominent reason children were being given away.

They considered civilisation a failure because it was killing off all the big game.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement deploring the state GOP for its failure to censure Duke.

In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.

In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.

There could not be a giving up—and there must not be failure.

Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money.