Antonym: success. Similar words: fail, fail to, fair, faint, fairy, fairly, unfair, affair. Meaning: ['feɪljə(r)] 
n. 1. an act that fails 2. an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose 3. lack of success 4. a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently 5. an unexpected omission 6. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due 7. loss of ability to function normally.
n. 1. an act that fails 2. an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose 3. lack of success 4. a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently 5. an unexpected omission 6. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due 7. loss of ability to function normally. 
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181) I can't ask for help. It feels like a confession of failure.
182) Since the failure in the crops, the farmers have been out of heart.
183) Some blame indecisive leadership for the party's failure at the polls.
184) His father jumped on him for failure in the exam.
185) In the last analysis , the responsibility for this failure must lie with the minister.
186) We were perplexed by his failure to answer the letter.
187) His failure in the exam has knocked all the stuffing out of him.
188) She was unable to hide her delight at his failure.
189) The marriage was a failure and they both wanted to be free of it.
190) The captain was made a scapegoat for the team's failure.
191) His failure is in great/large measure due to lack of confidence.
192) The Opposition is making a lot of political capital out of the Government's failure to invest in education.
193) This washing machine was guaranteed from mechanical failure — I demand a new one!
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194) Her ideas were large: if she could not succeed, she would at least be a heroic failure.
195) At stake is the success or failure of world trade talks.
196) Scientists had maintained that the crop failure was not explicable.
197) I always felt a bit of a failure at school.
198) If there is a power failure, the emergency generators should come on line within 15 minutes.
199) I regarded her failure to acknowledge my greeting as a slight.
200) The company now faces several lawsuits over its failure to protect its employees.
201) The planners had not provided for a failure of the power system.
202) The failure of the company was due to bad management.
203) The teacher tried to analyse the cause of our failure.
204) The failure of the talks could have catastrophic consequences .
205) She cited the high unemployment figures as evidence of the failure of government policy.
206) Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure.
207) Juppe got a mauling over the government's failure to fulfil its promises.
208) Fear of failure was bred into him at an early age.
209) The accident was caused by the failure of the reactor's cooling system.
210) With the failure of the experiment[sentencedict.com], we had reached a dead end.