English-Thai Dictionary

failure

N ความล้มเหลว  lack of success kwam-lom-leo

 

failure

N ผู้ ที่ ล้มเหลว  phu-ti-lom-leo

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FAILURE

n.fa'ilyur. 1. A failing; deficience; cessation of supply, or total defect; as the failure of springs or streams; failure of rain; failure of crops.
2. Omission; non-performance; as the failure of a promise; a man's failure in the execution of a trust.
3. Decay, or defect from decay; as the failure of memory or of sight.
4. A breaking, or becoming insolvent. At the close of a war, the prices of commodities fall, and innumerable failures secceed.
5. A failing; a slight fault. [Little used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FAILURE

Fail "ure, n. Etym: [From Fail. ]

 

1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

 

2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.

 

3. Want of success; the state of having failed.

 

4. Decau, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.

 

5. A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.

 

6. A failing; a slight fault. [Obs. ] Johnson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

failure

fail ure |ˈfālyər ˈfeɪljər | ▶noun 1 lack of success: an economic policy that is doomed to failure | the failures of his policies. • an unsuccessful person, enterprise, or thing: bad weather had resulted in crop failures. 2 the omission of expected or required action: their failure to comply with the basic rules. • a lack or deficiency of a desirable quality: a failure of imagination. 3 the action or state of not functioning: symptoms of heart failure | an engine failure. • a sudden cessation of power. • the collapse of a business. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (originally as failer, in the senses ‘nonoccurrence ’ and ‘cessation of supply ’): from Anglo-Norman French failer for Old French faillir (see fail ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

failure

fail |ure |ˈfeɪljə | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 lack of success: an economic policy that is doomed to failure. • [ count noun ] an unsuccessful person or thing: bad weather had resulted in crop failures. 2 the neglect or omission of expected or required action: their failure to comply with the basic rules. • [ count noun ] a lack or deficiency of a desirable quality: a failure of imagination. 3 the action or state of not functioning: symptoms of heart failure | [ count noun ] : a chance engine failure. • [ count noun ] a sudden cessation of power. • [ count noun ] the collapse of a business. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (originally as failer, in the senses ‘non-occurrence ’ and ‘cessation of supply ’): from Anglo-Norman French failer for Old French faillir (see fail ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

failure

failure noun 1 the failure of the assassination attempt: lack of success, nonfulfillment, defeat, collapse, foundering. ANTONYMS success. 2 all his schemes had been a failure: fiasco, debacle, catastrophe, disaster; informal flop, megaflop, washout, dead loss, snafu, clinker, dud, no-go. ANTONYMS success. 3 she was regarded as a failure: loser, underachiever, ne'er-do-well, disappointment; informal no-hoper, dead loss, dud, write-off. ANTONYMS success. 4 his failure in duty: negligence, dereliction; omission, oversight. 5 a crop failure: inadequacy, insufficiency, deficiency, dearth, scarcity, shortfall. 6 the failure of the camera: breaking down, breakdown, malfunction; crash. 7 company failures: collapse, crash, bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, closure. ANTONYMS success. WORD SPECTRUM: success / failure See success Word Spectrums show shades of meaning between two polar opposites.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

failure

failure noun 1 the failure of the assassination attempt: lack of success, non-success, non-fulfilment, abortion, miscarriage, defeat, frustration, collapse, foundering, misfiring, coming to nothing, falling through; informal fizzling out. ANTONYMS success. 2 every one of his schemes had been a failure: fiasco, debacle, catastrophe, disaster, blunder, vain attempt, abortion, defeat; Brit. damp squib; informal flop, botch, hash, foul-up, screw-up, washout, let-down, dead loss, dead duck, lead balloon, lemon; Brit. informal cock-up, pig's ear; N. Amer. informal snafu, clinker; vulgar slang fuck-up, balls-up. ANTONYMS success. 3 I was regarded by everyone as a failure: loser, born loser, incompetent, nonachiever, underachiever, ne'er-do-well, disappointment, write-off; no one, nobody; informal no-hoper, flop, dud, non-starter, washout, dead loss, lemon. ANTONYMS success. 4 he felt guilty for what seemed like a failure in duty: negligence, remissness, non-observance, non-performance, dereliction; omission, neglect, oversight. 5 any crop failure could affect a farming business: inadequacy, insufficiency, deficiency, lack, dearth, scarcity, shortfall. 6 he was puzzled by the failure of the camera: breaking down, breakdown, non-function, cutting out, seizing up; malfunction, faultiness; crash; informal conking out; Brit. informal playing up. 7 the failure of several state-owned companies: collapse, crash, going under, bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, close-down, closure, closing, shutting down, winding up, termination; decline, failing, foundering, sinking, ruin, ruination; informal folding, flop. ANTONYMS success. WORD LINKS failure kakorrhaphiaphobia fear of failure Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

failure

fail ure /féɪljə r /→fail 名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 U «…の » 失敗 , 不成功 ; 落第 «of , in » (↔success ); 〖～ (of A ) to do 〗(A 〈人など 〉が )…できないこと ; C 敗北者, 落選者, 失敗作, 失敗した試み ▸ the line that divides success and failure 成功と失敗の分け目 ▸ a failure rate 失敗 [故障 ]率 ▸ a complete [total ] failure 完全な失敗 ▸ (an ) economic failure 経済の失速 ▸ have a sense of humo (u )r failure ｟主に英 ｠笑えない状況にある 2 U C 〖しばしばone 's ～〗 «…の » 怠慢 , 不履行 «in » ; 〖～ (of A ) to do 〗(A 〈人など 〉が )…しないこと ; «…する » 十分な能力がないこと «of » ▸ failure to wear seat belts シートベルトの締め忘れ 3 U C 不足 ; 不作 ▸ (a ) crop failure 不作 4 U C «…の » 衰弱, 衰え ; 機能停止; (機械の )故障 ; 身体の不調, 機能不全 «of, in » ▸ heart [kidney ] failure 心 [腎 （じん ）]不全 ▸ (a ) power failure 停電 5 C U 倒産 ; 権力の失墜 .6 C ｟米 ｠落第点, 不可 (｟略 ｠ F ).