fail

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
2. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
3. (transitive) To neglect.
4. (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
5. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
6. (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
7. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To miss attaining; to lose.
9. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
10. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
11. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
12. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
13. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
14. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
15. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
2. (countable, uncountable) A failing grade in an academic examination.
3. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A failure (something incapable of success).
4. (slang, uncountable) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

Adj

Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.

Noun

A piece of turf cut from grassland.

Concepts

échouer

faillir

négliger

manquer

rater

abandonner

tomber

avorter

tomber en panne

omettre

dédaigner

faiblir

faire

lâcher

mourir

💀

partir

parvenir

passer

perdre

recaler

réussir

sombrer

trahir

transgresser

dé à jouer

être inefficace

flancher

louper

manquer son coup

périmer

râter

reperdre

se faire recaler

sortir avec

ẻchouer

aboutir

aller

bombarder

🐚

bombe

💣

chavirer

déserter

🏜️

devenir

dire

🗣️

distribuer

échec

Synonymes

lose

miscarry

collapse

unsuccessful

neglect

miss

fall through

abort

flunk

blunder

go bankrupt

defeated

failure

fall

break down

go wrong

err

make a mistake

founder

flop

betray

decline

unable

break

give out

give way

be unsuccessful

die

💀

crash

lack

go down

bomb

💣

leave

desert

🏜️

fumble

flush it

defeat

wane

weaken

fold

be defeated

come to naught

decay

omit

abandon

come to nothing

conk out

lacking

go

go bad

Traductions

fallire

scheitern

fallar

versagen

fracasar

mancare

fallar

bocciare

mislukken

abortire

falhar

deficio

falen

ausfallen

παραλείπω

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/feɪl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: failen

Appartenant à néerlandais: feilen

Appartenant à allemand: fehlen

Appartenant à danois: fejle

Appartenant à suédois: fela

Appartenant à islandais: feila

Appartenant à espagnol: fallar

Appartenant à gaélique écossais: fàl

Appartenant à écossais: faill

In summary

Inherited from Middle English failen, borrowed from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *sgʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”).
Compare Alemannic German fääle (“to lack”), Cimbrian béelan, véelan (“to fail”), veln (“to be absent, missing”), Dutch falen, feilen (“to fail, miss”), German fallieren, fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fallera (“to fail, break, malfunction”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).