Fail to

Synonyms for "fail to" (17 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)

avoid deficit delay disobedience

Strong matches (5)

Noun(5 words)

hesitate inactivity miss neglect noncompliance

Related words (8)

Noun(8 words)

omission omitomit sampleomitting overlook shortcoming underachieve underachievement

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

15 entries

achievement act behavior condition conduct failure inability inactivity inattention outcome oversight performance phenomenon state unresponsiveness

More specific

15 entries

delayed replyfailure to actfailure to completefailure to meet goalfailure to meet standardfailure to reportmissed cluemissed deadlinenoncompliance with deadlinenoncompliance with instructionsnoncompliance with policyoverdue assignmentunanswered questionunfinished taskunnoticed cue

Collocations

8 entries

failure to actfailure to appearfailure to completefailure to complyfailure to deliverfailure to meetfailure to payfailure to report

Inflections

5 entries

failedfailed tofailing tofails tofailures to

Derivations

3 entries

failed failing failure

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