Failure Synonyms

Failure synonyms such as "closing, blunder, born loser, dereliction, breakdown, breakdown, bankruptcy, and close-down". Failure is a noun, and its antonyms are success and achievement. Here are 105 another word for failure with example sentences.

Another word for Failure

1. lack of success

  • washout
  • snafu
  • screw-up
  • pig's ear
  • non-success
  • non-fulfilment
  • misfiring
  • let-down
  • lemon
  • lead balloon
  • lack of success
  • hash
  • frustration
  • foundering
  • foul-up
  • flop
  • fizzling out
  • fiasco
  • falling through
  • fail
  • disaster
  • defeat
  • debacle
  • dead loss
  • dead duck
  • damp squib
  • coming to nothing
  • collapse
  • cock-up
  • clinker
  • catastrophe
  • botch
  • blunder

2. loser

  • write-off
  • washout
  • underachiever
  • shortfall
  • scarcity
  • no one
  • non-starter
  • non-achiever
  • nobody
  • no-hoper
  • ne'er-do-well
  • loser
  • lemon
  • lack
  • insufficiency
  • incompetent
  • inadequacy
  • flop
  • dud
  • disappointment
  • deficiency
  • dearth
  • dead loss
  • born loser

3. negligence

  • remissness
  • oversight
  • omission
  • non-performance
  • non-observance
  • negligence
  • neglect
  • dereliction

4. breaking down

  • seizing up
  • playing up
  • non-function
  • malfunction
  • faultiness
  • cutting out
  • crash
  • conking out
  • breaking down
  • breakdown

5. breaking down

  • seizing up
  • playing up
  • non-function
  • malfunction
  • faultiness
  • cutting out
  • crash
  • conking out
  • breaking down
  • breakdown

6. collapse

  • winding up
  • termination
  • sinking
  • shutting down
  • ruination
  • ruin
  • liquidation
  • insolvency
  • going under
  • foundering
  • folding
  • flop
  • failing
  • decline
  • crash
  • collapse
  • closure
  • closing
  • close-down
  • bankruptcy

How to Use failure in a Sentence

Failure is a stepping stone forward.

His failure taught him valuable lessons.

I’m embarrassed to admit my failure.

She faced failure but persevered onward.

The project ended in failure and disappointment.