Definition/Meaning of fail

• English - Verb: fail (third-person singular simple present fails, present participle failing, simple past and past participle failed) (intransitive) To be unsuccessful . Throughout my life, I have always failed . 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC,…
• English - Noun: fail (countable and uncountable, plural fails) (countable, uncountable) A failure , especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action). (countable, uncountable) A failing grade in an academic examination . (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A failure (something incapable of success). (slang, uncountable) Poor quality ; substandard workmanship. The project was full of fail . fail…
• English - Adjective: fail (comparative more fail, superlative most fail) (US, slang) Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.
• English - Alternative forms: feal Noun fail ( plural fails ) A piece of turf cut from grassland . Derived terms fail and divot
• English - References: fail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 fail in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911 fail at OneLook Dictionary Search