Failed

/feɪld/

Synonyms for "failed" (53 found)

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Closest matches (11)

abortive bankrupt bootless broke broken busted

Verb(4 words)

abortive bombed collapsed crash

Adjective(1 words)

collapsed bridge

Strong matches (16)

Verb(9 words)

crumbled decline defective disallow fail flopped flunk flunked foundered

destitute disappointed failing fruitless futilein receivershipineffective

Related words (26)

ineffectual inefficacious insolvent lame manque miscarried miscarryingof no effecton the rocksruined stickit stillborn successless unfortunate unsturdy unsuccessful useless

Verb(9 words)

ineffectual inoperative malfunction nonfunctional nonreplication rejectreplication failureunderperform unsuccessful

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

8 entries

assess condition functionality operability operate perform replication state

More specific

12 entries

abortive crashfailed replicationinconclusive inoperative misfire nonfunctional nonreplicationpartial replicationrejection stall underperform

Collocations

10 entries

failed attemptfailed experimentfailed outcomefailed projectfailed studyfailed systemfailed testfailed to convergefailed to reproducereplication failure

Inflections

2 entries

failing fails

Derivations

3 entries

fail failing failure

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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You worked hard, or you would have failed.

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You failed to wake Harry up.

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If it had not been for your advice, I would have failed.

Source: tatoeba (16991)

But for your help, I should have failed.

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