fail

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

fallire

mancare

bocciare

abortire

arrenare

tralasciare

falliamo

andare fallito

fallo

cadere

ignorare

insufficiente

negligere

non funzionare

omettere

stangare

trascurare

danneggiarsi

essere respinto

frustrarsi

abbandonare

mancare l'obiettivo

disprezzare

morire

💀

perdere

respingere

terminare

🔚

trombare

👉👌

esaurirsi

èssere bocciato

estinguersi

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

échouer

scheitern

fallar

faillir

versagen

fracasar

fallar

négliger

mislukken

falhar

falen

rater

ausfallen

manquer

deficio

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/feɪl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: failen

Affine olandese: feilen

Affine tedesco: fehlen

Affine danese: fejle

Affine svedese: fela

Affine islandese: feila

Affine spagnolo: fallar

Affine gaelico scozzese: fàl

Affine scozzese: 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”).