Fail

What do we mean by fail?

To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately. intransitive verb

To be unsuccessful. intransitive verb

To be unsuccessful in being acted upon. intransitive verb

To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum. intransitive verb

To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out. intransitive verb

To decline, as in strength or effectiveness. intransitive verb

To cease functioning properly. intransitive verb

To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain. intransitive verb

To become bankrupt or insolvent. intransitive verb

To disappoint or prove undependable to. intransitive verb

To abandon; forsake. intransitive verb

To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example). intransitive verb

To leave undone; neglect. intransitive verb

To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example). intransitive verb

To give such a grade of failure to (a student). intransitive verb

To be detected by (a drug test) as having used a banned substance. intransitive verb

A failing grade. noun

(without fail) With no chance of failure. idiom

Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)

A failure (something incapable of success)

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

A failing grade in an academic examination.

1. Another word for "suck", most probably derived from the world of internet gaming. 2. To not achieve Urban Dictionary

A rather annoying word whose use in certain situations has greatly increased recently. Kind of like the word "shit," "fail" is used by people who don't stop to think of a better word to use, making them pretty much useless to society. Urban Dictionary

UNF fleet from Navyfield. They are just so terrible. Urban Dictionary

To fail is to be either: Exceptionally bad at something, or to do/say something stupid to people, Or for an item/thing to fail, it has to not be what it is, such as a funny comic not being funny, etc. Urban Dictionary

What unoriginal, unimaginative motherfuckers say to other people in an attempt to help them forget what a failure their life really is. Urban Dictionary

What people tend to do when engaging in online chatrooms by not giving themselves the ability to hit the backspace button to correct epic typos. Urban Dictionary

The stupidest trend in existence, said by people who lack a better word, or just don't have the balls to say "you suck" supposed to imply failure at whatever was just attempted Urban Dictionary

1. If you do not succeed at a goal that you were going for 2. If you get a low test score 3. If you are a faggy fuckfaced shithole eating anal grease sucking buttfucking shit raping douche-waffle-mc'cunt-nugget, then you can use this to describe your friends if they do something that they weren't even trying to succeed at 4. A person disses you and you are such a fuckhole that you can't think of a diss you may use "fail" here. Urban Dictionary

1: To not achieve one's goals. 2: To recieve a grade of less than 60/100 on a test. 3: A word which has become an instant giveaway for stupid teenage fucks who think they are clever because they say things like "EPIC FAIL" or "YOU FAIL". Originally, these and other stupid phrases incorporating the word "fail" were given birth within internet cesspots such as 4chan, but they have rapidly found acceptance among the adolescent population as the new, cool thing to say. It is likely to become another pseudo-intellectual word popularized by the internet- further examples including words such as existentialism. Urban Dictionary

Adjective 1)a: describing any noun or event as having failed; b: the state of being a failure. 2)An internet meme that has become more commonplace in "RL" amongst those of the video game/internet culture. The use of fail and its amusement are derived from video games out of the common "game over" screens or "mission failure" notifications. Often this is used in redundancy to create a sense of irony: Fail ____ is fail: in which case any noun is thus being identified by the adjective and described by it. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to fail:
fail.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fail:
miserably, comply, fails, properly, succeed, qualify, correctly, recognize, respond, failure, notice, understand, safe, achieve, meet, error.

Words that rhyme with fail:
scale, rail, pale, hail, entail, trail, mail, avail, email, whale, sale, detail, tail, prevail, nail, bail, cocktail, curtail, ale, sail, tale, veil, assail, hale, retail, stale, gale, bale, frail, quail, travail, vale, wail, male, dovetail, blackmail, flail, wholesale, swale, zale, telltale, voicemail, pail, dale, ail, braille, kale, grail, shale, jail, female, upscale, snail, wale, vail, derail, unveil, impale, exhale, yale, surveil, fairytale, inhale, abigail, holy grail, foxtail, quale, cale, gmail, guardrail, ponytail, thumbnail, handrail, brail, greenmail, gael, dwale, gail, coattail, dail, orrell, toenail, resale, monorail, fantail, martingale, airedale, horsetail, clydesdale, countervail, folktale, airmail, soleil, hobnail, biennale, faille, kail, calle, salle, shail.

Adjectives that are often used to describe fail:
congest, many, lia, renal, pass, big, free, most, never, original, set, global, desperate, famous, must, variable, presidential, honey, final, access, lest, congestive, republican, light, manage, fearless.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fail:
safe, field, mount, child, over, stop, proof, bank, year, brother, view, out, fax, operation, condition, safety, silent, soft, method, softly, safing, danger, basis, lie, hope, the, operational, bairn, grades, fast, secure, message, recovery, match, awareness, softness.

Consonant match to fail:
fall, file, feel, foil, foul, full, fool, fell, fill, fowl, foal, phil, phile, fil, foyle, fille, fel, faille, phyle, faul, phyll, feil, fiel, fahl, pfeil, phil-, pfohl, faal, fohl, fehl, pfahl, faile, faull, foale, foell.

Words that sound like fail:
fail, fale, faille, phail, feel, fall, full, fool, fell, fill, ful, file, foul, foil, phil, fowl, foal, fal, feal, fel, fiel, faul, fil, phile, fille, fol, fule, foll, -ful, feil, faal, falle, phyle, foyle, phyll, fele, fyl, phal, felle, foule, folle, phyl, fahl, pfahl, fohl, pfohl, pfeil, faule, feile, -phile, fehl, filh, phil-, failed, frail, fails, fay, fe, fey, flail, faye, fle, fll, flah, fraile, flw, fales, failor, fei, faler, faley, failla, phl, flh, theyll, veil, vale, vail, valle, vell, vaile, fang, fing, fong, fung, feng, phong, phung, fange, fonge, awful, aweful, afoul, -fy, a fool, afel, afal, -phage, afol, bphil.