Word "FAIL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
Synonyms:
betray
Examples:
His sense of smell failed him this time
His strength finally failed him
His children failed him in the crisis

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
be unsuccessful
Synonyms:
go wrong, miscarry
Examples:
Where do today's public schools fail?
The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
fail to do something; leave something undone
Synonyms:
neglect
Examples:
She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib
The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account

Crossword Clues for FAIL

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Clue Source Date
Prove unsuccessful (4) Mirror Classic 21 Aug 2025
Cease functioning (4) Puzzler 18 Aug 2025
Bad exam result The Telegraph Mini 14 Aug 2025
Flunk, as a test
Get an F New York Times 04 Aug 2025
Bite the dust (4) Puzzler 01 Aug 2025
Pass? Oh, no, no, no.
Be unsuccessful (4) Mirror Quick 16 Jul 2025
Crash brings fellow trouble (4) Mirror Cryptic 16 Jul 2025
F that comes right after A, B, C and D New York Times 22 Jun 2025
Crash brings fellow trouble (4) Mirror Cryptic 18 Jun 2025
Flunk(4)
Flunk (4) Mirror Quick 18 Jun 2025
Be unsuccessful (4) Mirror Classic 13 Jun 2025
Set up to ___ (sabotage)
As a result of an MoT test, cars don't make the grade (4)
Be unsuccessful Mirror Quick 27 May 2025
Crash brings fellow trouble Mirror Cryptic 27 May 2025
Flunk Eugene Sheffer 27 May 2025
Epic ___ USA Today 07 May 2025
Flunk, as a history test
Go under Wall Street Journal 08 Apr 2025
Make a mistake following trouble (4)
Not being robust right away, one will not pass (4)
Get 0% on
To flunk upsets Alfie no end! (4)
Pass or __
If Al goes out, he'll miss his achievement! (4)
Flunk, as a test
Be unsuccessful The Times Concise 07 Feb 2025
Grade that requires a retest
Be unsuccessful Universal 19 Jan 2025
Don't pass! The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 18 Jan 2025
Get an F Commuter 10 Jan 2025
"F" on a test
Not pass Universal 17 Dec 2024
Be unsuccessful, the test
Maybe a lm can't be nished if you go bust (4)
"F" on a test
Miss achievement
Be unsuccessful The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 14 Nov 2024
Not pass New York Times 15 Oct 2024
Do horrible in class Family Time 15 Sep 2024
Opposite of 'succeed' Puzzler Backwords 10 Sep 2024
Opposite of 'pass' (an exam) (4)
Be unsuccessful Newsday 27 Aug 2024
Get an F Family Time 28 Jul 2024
Epic ___ (embarrassing blunder) USA Today 24 Jul 2024
Be unsuccessful at, ... the subject
Drop the ball Wall Street Journal 15 Jun 2024
Word in many a YouTube title LA Times Daily 09 Jun 2024
Be unsuccessful in achieving your goal (4)
F, on a test
Do not succeed
To let down (4)
Get an F
Flop, go bust (4)
Get an F USA Today 13 Mar 2024
Have no success when Alfie comes round endlessly (4)
I, in river, go belly up (4)
Female to sicken and disappoint The Sun Two Speed 08 Mar 2024
Be unsuccessful The Sun Two Speed 08 Mar 2024
Unsuccessfully try to find one in the river (4)
Miss the wild part of California (4)
Founder of football I left (4)
Flunk, as a test
Be unsuccessful Mirror Classic 20 Feb 2024
Fighter facing trouble gets to be unsuccessful (4)
Go down the tubes USA Today 13 Feb 2024
Grade that requires a retest
Be unsuccessful Newsday 29 Jan 2024
Don't pass New York Times 16 Jan 2024
Word in the title of many an embarrassing YouTube video
See if Al can be wanting (4)
"F" on a test
Go bankrupt Wall Street Journal 14 Nov 2023
Fall short of a pass mark The Times Concise 21 Sep 2023
"Words __ me!" LA Times Daily 27 Aug 2023
Not succeed USA Today 25 Aug 2023
Be unsuccessful LA Times Daily 20 Aug 2023
Trouble follows loud bomb The Times Cryptic 18 Aug 2023
Flunk, as an exam
Flunk a test, say
Flunk, as a test
Get an F on a test, say
Fall short The Guardian Quick 08 May 2023
Get an F Universal 07 Feb 2023
Not pass in math, say
Fall flat LA Times Daily 21 Sep 2022
Get an F on USA Today 15 Sep 2022
Opposite of ace, in a test
F on a test
Break down Wall Street Journal 03 May 2022
Malfunction The Telegraph Quick 29 Apr 2022
Epic __ The Washington Post 21 Apr 2022
Epic __ LA Times Daily 21 Apr 2022
Get an F
Be unsuccessful Newsday 23 Feb 2022
Stop working for American institute in Florida Irish Times Crosaire 12 Feb 2022
'Don't ___ me now!' The Washington Post Sunday 09 Jan 2022
Neglect The Guardian Quick 20 Nov 2021
Not pass Universal 03 Nov 2021
Go under Thomas Joseph 26 Jul 2021
Stop working for American institute in Florida Irish Times Crosaire 23 Jul 2021
Flunk Eugene Sheffer 17 Jul 2021
Opposite of "succeed"
Be unsuccessful
Go belly up Wall Street Journal 16 Mar 2021
Prove inadequate Wall Street Journal 16 Jan 2021
Fall flat The Washington Post 01 Jan 2021
Fall flat LA Times Daily 01 Jan 2021
Flunk Eugene Sheffer 31 Dec 2020
Hold for another year, say New York Times 18 Dec 2020
Do poorly USA Today 18 Dec 2020
Without ___ (always)
Not pass, in school Universal 18 Sep 2020
Go under Thomas Joseph 18 Sep 2020
Feasible, occasionally, to come up short
Fall flat USA Today 15 Jul 2020
   Break from female trouble
Not succeed USA Today 15 Jun 2020
Go out of business Wall Street Journal 18 May 2020
Miss the mark with spoonerisms out of professionalism Irish Times Crosaire 11 May 2020
Be unsuccessful The Times Concise 20 Mar 2020
Not get above 60, say New York Times 19 Feb 2020
"Without ___" 2002 novel written by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps Mary Ellen Froelich protect the Vice-President-Elect
Give out Wall Street Journal 16 Nov 2019
Break down The Telegraph Quick 28 Sep 2019
Let down smaller section of Irish party
Be unsuccessful The Telegraph Quick 20 Aug 2019
Come to nothing New York Times 10 Jul 2019
Be unsuccessful The Sun Two Speed 03 Jun 2019
Female to sicken and disappoint The Sun Two Speed 03 Jun 2019
Give out Thomas Joseph 09 May 2019
Break down The Times Concise 28 Apr 2019
Bomb, as a midterm Universal 01 Apr 2019
Opposite of "succeed"
Unable to meet success
Flunk Canadiana 11 Feb 2019
___-safe (contingency plan)
Bomb, as a midterm
Come to nothing
Have to repeat a grade Universal 29 Nov 2018
Fall short USA Today 06 Nov 2018
How to repeat a grade Universal 25 Oct 2018
Founder Wall Street Journal 25 Oct 2018
Epic __: disaster LA Times Daily 16 Oct 2018
Epic __: disaster The Washington Post 16 Oct 2018
Go down the tubes USA Today 10 Oct 2018
Become unsuccessful at achieving a target, say
Be triumphant? No Universal 21 Aug 2018
One on YouTube might be epic The Chronicle of Higher Education 30 Mar 2018
Be unsuccessful Wall Street Journal 19 Mar 2018
Be unsuccessful Irish Times Simplex 17 Feb 2018
Have to repeat a grade
Founder
Epic __: disaster
Be triumphant? No
Go down the tubes
How to repeat a grade
Fall short
One on YouTube might be epic
Be unsuccessful LA Times Daily 26 Dec 2017
Be unsuccessful The Washington Post 26 Dec 2017
Be unsuccessful Newsday 17 Dec 2017
Fall short Universal 11 Dec 2017
Urged to leave lifeguard or go broke Irish Times Crosaire 04 Dec 2017
Get 29-Across New York Times 01 Oct 2017
Opposite of pass Family Time 17 Sep 2017
Founder of football body I left The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Sep 2017
It can be an epic one
Not work out Newsday 06 Aug 2017
Go wrong The Telegraph Quick 06 Jun 2017
Start to feel pain and collapse
Break down following trouble The Telegraph Toughie 05 May 2017
Epic __ LA Times Daily 26 Jan 2017
Go belly up Eugene Sheffer 23 Jan 2017
Epic __
Fall short
Be unsuccessful
Get 29-Across
Crash and burn New York Times 18 Nov 2016
Get no credit for, in school LA Times Daily 15 Nov 2016
Pass's opposite New York Times 20 Sep 2016
Come up short Newsday 06 Sep 2016
Flunk when feeble, right to pull out
Suffer a defeat* Wall Street Journal 15 Jul 2016
Flunk out USA Today 05 Jun 2016
Go belly-up USA Today 25 Apr 2016
Fall on one's face USA Today 09 Apr 2016
Go up in smoke LA Times Daily 30 Mar 2016
Wash out The Chronicle of Higher Education 11 Mar 2016
Flunk out
Wash out
Crash and burn
Pass's opposite
Bite the dust The Washington Post 21 Dec 2015
Be unsuccessful in fighting against insurgency leaders, initially
Need repair Newsday 29 Oct 2015
Go bankrupt Premier Sunday 07 Jun 2015
Not catch on Newsday 14 Feb 2015
Not make the grade USA Today 06 Feb 2015
Not make the grade
Not catch on
Go belly up
Go bankrupt
Come up short
Need repair
Pass opposite
Get no credit, in a way
Go under
Get terrible grades
Be unsuccessful
Get an F
Go belly-up
Fall flat
Need to retake in summer school, say
Opposite of pass
Go pfft
Wash out
Bomb
Strike out
Fall flat
Not make the grade?
Flunk out
Flunk out
"Words ___ me!"
Fall short
Go bankrupt
Wash out
Come to naught
Epic ___
Flunk
Fall short of success
Don't pass
Fall short
With 55-Across, 58-/46-Across movie (1964)
Fall short
Fall short of success
Tank
Pass's opposite
Come up short
Come up short
Pass's opposite
Tank
Flunk out
Bomb
Bomb
Pass alternative
Without ___ (religiously)
Earn no credit, say
Not pass
Go down the tubes
Earn no credit
Opposite of pass
Not pass
Go kaput
Fall short
Be unsuccessful
Flunk
Go under
Fall on one's face
Go broke
Not make the grade
Go belly up
Wash out
Go kaput
Flunk
Go bankrupt
Go bankrupt
Give out
Pass alternative
Go belly-up
Wash out
Wash out
Bite the dust
Go belly up
Strike out
Give out
Bite the dust
Not work out
Opposite of pass
Not cut it
Go downhill
Flunk
Give
Go belly up
Close down
Miss the mark
Stop running, perhaps
Don't pass
Go out of business
Go down the tubes
Go belly up
Fall short
Go belly-up
Fall through
Prove deficient
Go belly-up
Go belly up
Go under
Come up short
Go belly up
Miss the mark
Earn an F
Go down in history?
Go belly-up
Give out
Not work
Go on the fritz
Flunk
Neglect school
Get an F
Go belly-up
Go belly-up
Go pfft!
Go bust
Opposite of ace
Blow it
Go on the fritz
Go under
Not succeed
Give out
Conk out
Flunk
Go Belly up
Blow it
Miss the mark
Not make the grade
Get an F
Flop
Poop out
Conk out
Come up short
Flunk out
Fall short
Not work
Go pfft!
Flop
Lose power
Lose vigor
Prove deficient
Lay an egg
Go broke
Safe preceder
Get an F on an exam
Be lacking
Disappoint
Fall short
Come a cropper
Miscarry
Mess up
Flunk out
Miss
Fianna ___
Go under
Miss.
Go into bankruptcy.
Be unavailing.
Be unavailing
Be found wanting.
Piggin.
Get E on an exam.
Epic ___
Disappoint.
Not pass.
Be washed out.
Go pfft big time
Flunk.
Default.
Fall short.
Get an "F."
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