Word Type

Noun

The word "failure" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

succeed success success

Typical Location

casino

Capable Of

amount to nothing destroy hope hold back illusion lower expectations

Causes Desire

commit suicide improve yourself

Defined As

fertilizer of success

Derived Terms

acute kidney failure acute renal failure congestive cardiac failure failure drill failure is the best teacher failure rate failure to prepare is preparing to fail failureless failureproof girlfailure government failure mean distance between failure mean time to failure microfailure nonfailure postfailure single point of failure tree failure

Derived From

fail

Distinct From

success

Inflected/Variant Forms

fail

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

circumstances destiny disorder fate fortune happening insolvency lot luck natural event nonaccomplishment nonachievement occurrence occurrent omission portion skip unfortunate unfortunate person upset

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

dam failure failure to launch failure to thrive fiasco ground failure market failure power failure single-point failure structural failure

Type Of (IsA)

disorder fortune happening nonaccomplishment omission unfortunate

Related Terms

fail fail-fast fail-safe fail-stop

Related Terms

ability bankruptcy breakdown condition desirable endeavour fail function incapable intended item meet object objective opposite perform required state success terminate

Synonym Network

bankruptcy fail loser

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.