| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_fact-of-not-being-successful |
| 释义 | the fact of not being successfulThese words refer to the fact of not being successful. One common word for this is failure. Failure is often used to refer to the fact of being unsuccessful and generally does not describe people in this use. Failure is not an option. Their search ended in failure. One opposite of failure is success. Success can often be used in negative contexts. I wish you success in all your future endeavours. I've tried to convince her to come over, but without much success. If something fails because it does not work correctly and so is unsuccessful, you can use the nouns breakdown or meltdown to describe that fact. Both words are used to refer to systems, and meltdown is used often of financial failures. The complete breakdown of local infrastructure left residents without water or electricity. The meeting was one big communcation breakdown. The markets experienced a meltdown at the news of the sale. A recession will send the economy into a meltdown. When a system, organization, or business suddenly becomes unsuccessful, you can call that a collapse. The car manufacturer's collapse left the region's economy in tatters. She wrote a book about the collapse of the Roman Empire. An instance of something failing very badly can, in informal language, be called a fail or a washout. He tried to sing the anthem, but it was an epic fail. We made plans to see the concert together, but she got sick and my car broke down, so it was a total washout. A fiasco is something that goes wrong and fails completely, often in an embarassing way. You can use debacle to refer to something that completely fails because it is not planned well, and which is remembered as a failure. And in informal UK English, a situation that is a failure because of poor planning and many mistakes is called an omnishambles. We had so many staff call in sick that the shift was a complete fiasco. After the Watergate debacle, Americans demanded more accountability for the President. UKHis political campaign was a complete omnishambles from the very beginning. When someone or something fails very suddenly and noticeably, and especially after a period of success, you can use the word flameout to describe this. Flameout is used in informal US English. USHis team demanded he go to rehab after his public flameout. USInvestors were nervous after Enron's flameout. In academic or business writing, the condition of something not giving you the results you had hoped for and so being a failure is called non-success or inefficacy. Inefficacy is a formal word. Studies show that students who are not given adequate preparation are prone to non-success. The method's inefficacy was discussed. Related articlesto not work or happen as intended someone or something that is not successful the fact of not doing something you should |
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