fail

noun

Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

"The project was full of fail."

noun

A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)

noun

A failure (something incapable of success)

noun

A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).

noun

A failing grade in an academic examination.

verb

To be unsuccessful.

"Throughout my life, I have always failed."

verb

Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

"The truck failed to start."

verb

To neglect.

"The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors."

verb

Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

"After running five minutes, the engine failed."

verb

To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.

verb

To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

"I failed English last year."

verb

To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

"The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments."

verb

To miss attaining; to lose.

verb

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

"The crops failed last year."

verb

To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

verb

To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

verb

To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

"A sick man fails."

verb

To perish; to die; used of a person.

verb

To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

verb

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.

adjective

That is a failure.