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fail
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?l, IPA(key): /fe?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English failen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??l- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *sg??h?el- (“to stumble”). Compare Dutch feilen, falen (“to fail, miss”), German fehlen (“to fail, miss, lack”), Danish fejle (“to fail, err”), Swedish fela (“to fail, be wanting, do wrong”), Icelandic feila (“to fail”), Spanish fallar (“to fail, miss”).
Verb
fail (third-person singular simple present fails, present participle failing, simple past and past participle failed)
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- (transitive) To neglect.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism
- A poor Irish Widow […] went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the Charitable Establishments of that City. At this Charitable Establishment and then at that she was refused; referred from one to the other, helped by none; — till she had exhausted them all; till her strength and heart failed her: she sank down in typhus-fever […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
- 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.
- 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
- (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
- (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb which takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Alternative forms
- faile (obsolete)
- fayle (obsolete)
Synonyms
- (to be unsuccessful): fall on one's face
- (to receive non-passing grades in academic pursuits): flunk (US)
Antonyms
- (to be unsuccessful): succeed
Derived terms
- failure
- fail-safe
- words fail someone
Related terms
- default
- fallacy
- false
- fault
Translations
Noun
fail (countable and uncountable, plural fails)
- (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
- (slang, US) 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.
Derived terms
Adjective
fail (comparative more fail, superlative most fail)
- (slang, US) That is a failure.
Etymology 2
Unknown. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàl (“hedge”), Scots faill (“turf”). Attested from the 16th century.
Alternative forms
- feal
Noun
fail (plural fails)
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
Derived terms
- fail and divot
References
- fail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fail in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fail at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- -afil, alif, fila
Indonesian
Etymology
From English file, from Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin filum (“thread”). Compare to Malay fail.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fa?l]
- Hyphenation: fa?il
Noun
fail
- file,
- a collection of papers collated and archived together.
- Synonyms: berkas, dokumen
- (computing) an aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- a collection of papers collated and archived together.
- file rack
Further reading
- “fail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish foil, from Proto-Celtic *wali-, from Proto-Indo-European *wel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (hélix, “something twisted”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?al?/
Noun
fail f (genitive singular faile, nominative plural faileanna)
- ring
- bracelet
- wreath
- sty
Declension
Mutation
Malay
Etymology
From English file.
Noun
fail (plural fail-fail)
- file (collection of papers)
- information or a document about someone, something etc.
- (computing) file (aggregation of data on a storage device)
Derived terms
- pemfailan (the process of filing)
- berfail-fail (a lot of files)
Verb
fail (used in the form memfailkan)
- file (commit papers)
- file (to archive)
- (computing) file (store computer data)
- (with untuk) file (make a formal request)
Old Irish
Verb
fail
- Alternative form of fil
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fallacy
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fallace, from Latin fallacia (“deception, deceit”), from fallax (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fæl?si/
Noun
fallacy (plural fallacies)
- Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
- Mr Jones expressed great gratitude to the lady for the kind intentions towards him which she had expressed, and indeed testified, by this proposal; but, besides intimating some diffidence of success from the lady’s knowledge of his love to her niece, which had not been her case in regard to Mr Fitzpatrick, he said, he was afraid Miss Western would never agree to an imposition of this kind, as well from her utter detestation of all fallacy as from her avowed duty to her aunt.
- Synonyms: deception, deceitfulness
- (logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument.
Derived terms
- fallacious
Related terms
- fail
- fallible
- logical fallacy
- formal fallacy
- informal fallacy
- pathetic fallacy
Translations
See also
- sophism
- Appendix:Glossary of fallacies
Further reading
- fallacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fallacy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fallacy at OneLook Dictionary Search
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