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(n)
A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
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A project that has no chance of success.
a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
(adj)
unsuccessful
Not sufficient; of a type or kind that does not suffice, that does not satisfy requirements or needs.
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
A deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal.
The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
Not adequate; lacking in quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose.
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
The state of being invalid; lack of validity.
A lack of competence or ability.
The act of neglecting.
Willful neglect of one's duty.
The act, or the result of insufficiently reporting.
The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.
The condition of being underdeveloped.
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
The state of being negligent.
(v)
(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.
(typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
A fault or malfunction.
A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
Lack of action or activity or labor
The condition of being ineffective
Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
The property of being unwilling.
Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
The lack of a capacity; an inability.
The quality of being inept.
The characteristic of being unfit or out of physical shape.
Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.
(countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc.
Unwillingness to do something.
The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.
Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.
Failure to function.
Supervision or management.
The condition of being incapable.
A malfunction.
A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour.
The quality of being unsuitable.
(uncountable) The act of omitting.
The state of being passive.
(informal) A failure of any kind.
The state of being helpless.
The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.
(figurative) A deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made.
The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
An act of misfiring.
(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
(statistics) A value that is missing.
(countable) A problem affecting function.
(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
Behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.
The state of being unavailable
Inability to copulate or beget children; sterility, erectile dysfunction, etc.
A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency.
weakness; defect
absence
(with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
A failure to comply.
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
(uncountable) The condition of something being scarce or deficient.
An error.
The act or result of being defaulted, especially a failure to meet a financial obligation.
An instance of using the word “not”; a negation or denial.
Alternative spelling of noncompliance. [A failure to comply.]
Alternative spelling of nonexistence. [The state of not existing.]
The act of refusing.
Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
(mathematics) A negative quantity.
Something that is impossible.
A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.
(uncountable) The condition of being weak.
(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
(Malaysia, slang) A non-Muslim citizen.
A disability or handicap.
(political science) The policy of a state of not intervening in the domestic affairs of another.
Misconduct.
A sudden or unexpected failure.
The act of refraining.
A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
The process by which something is lost; a loss.
The act of rejecting.
Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
(formal) The action of disabling or the state of being disabled.
The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.