Failure Synonyms
Closing , blunder, born loser, dereliction, breakdown, breakdown, bankruptcy, and close-down are synonyms for failure; success and achievement are antonyms of failure. On this page, you will find 106 another word for failure.
106 Another Word for Failure
1. lack of success
- Blunder
- Botch
- Catastrophe
- Cock-up
- Collapse
- Coming to nothing
- Damp squib
- Dead duck
- Dead loss
- Debacle
- Defeat
- Disaster
- Fail
- Falling through
- Fiasco
- Fizzling out
- Flop
- Foul-up
- Foundering
- Frustration
- Hash
- Lack of success
- Lead balloon
- Lemon
- Let-down
- Misfiring
- Non-fulfilment
- Non-success
- Pig's ear
- Screw-up
- Snafu
- Washout
- Clinker
2. loser
- Born loser
- Dead loss
- Dearth
- Deficiency
- Disappointment
- Dud
- Flop
- Inadequacy
- Incompetent
- Insufficiency
- Lack
- Lemon
- Loser
- Ne'er-do-well
- No one
- No-hoper
- Nobody
- Non-achiever
- Non-starter
- Scarcity
- Underachiever
- Washout
- Write-off
- Shortfall
3. negligence
- Dereliction
- Neglect
- Negligence
- Non-observance
- Non-performance
- Omission
- Remissness
- Oversight
4. breaking down
- Breakdown
- Breaking down
- Conking out
- Crash
- Cutting out
- Faultiness
- Malfunction
- Non-function
- Seizing up
- Playing up
5. breaking down
- Breakdown
- Breaking down
- Conking out
- Crash
- Cutting out
- Faultiness
- Malfunction
- Non-function
- Seizing up
- Playing up
6. collapse
- Bankruptcy
- Close-down
- Closing
- Closure
- Collapse
- Crash
- Decline
- Failing
- Folding
- Foundering
- Going under
- Insolvency
- Liquidation
- Ruin
- Ruination
- Shutting down
- Sinking
- Termination
- Winding up
- Flop
Failure Sentences
His failure taught him valuable lessons.
She faced failure but persevered onward.
The project ended in failure and disappointment.
Failure is a stepping stone forward.
