Thesaurus / failures
FEEDBACKsynonyms for failures
synonyms for failures
- bankruptcy
- breakdown
- collapse
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deterioration
- failing
- loss
- misstep
- abortion
- bomb
- botch
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- decay
- deficit
- downfall
- fiasco
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lemon
- loser
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- nonperformance
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- stalemate
- stoppage
- turkey
- washout
- wreck
- false step
- faux pas
- flash in the pan
- lead balloon
- nonsuccess
- sinking ship
- total loss
- disappointment
- also-ran
- insolvent
- turkey
- bankrupt
- dud
- moocher
- prodigal
- derelict
- incompetent
- beat
- deadbeat
- nobody
- loafer
- bum
- castaway
- flop
- loser
- good-for-nothing
- lumpy
- no-good
- has-been
- defaulter
- might-have-been
- underachiever
- washout
- born loser
- nonperformer
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing 
antonyms for failures
MOST RELEVANT
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
TRY USING failures
See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.
How to use failures in a sentence
But poverty accompanied by crop failures for three years was a general and accepted thing now.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXHe doubled and trebled his risks, and did the like, as may be guessed, to his anxieties and failures.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSHe made a deliberate effort to put himself in Zeal's place, and after several failures accomplished the feat.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONMarshal Marmont has been called one of Napoleon's failures, but this criticism is one-sided and unjust.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONTheir profits and losses vary greatly from year to year; and failures have been frequent.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESSuccess is very rarely due to extraordinary circumstances, or to chance, as the social failures are fond of saying.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLHe died of chagrin at business failures, and at not having received any assistance from his father or mother.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHESecond, they must study themselves and their failures, trying to make the weak places strong.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUMHis many failures caused his friends to forsake him and he was put in prison for not paying his debts.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUSAfter several failures, the boys acquired the knack of making up and binding a pack.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSON