fail

/feɪl/

意味: 失敗する

例文: Kai tried to fail gracefully. The floor disagreed.
　　  カイは優雅に失敗しようとしたが、床が許さなかった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: fail an exam(試験に失敗する), fail to do(〜するのに失敗する), fail a test(テストに落ちる)

定義: 何かを達成できないこと、または期待された結果を得られないこと。失敗する、またはうまくいかないことを指します。

failは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: fail to do something; leave something undone
Verb: be unsuccessful
Verb: disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
Verb: stop operating or functioning
Verb: be unable
Verb: judge unacceptable
Verb: fail to get a passing grade
Verb: fall short in what is expected
Verb: become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
Verb: prove insufficient
Verb: get worse

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

I fail to understand the complex instructions.(複雑な指示が理解できません。)
She will not fail her final exam.(彼女は期末試験に落ちません。)
They fail when they do not prepare well.(準備不足で失敗します。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib
Verb: The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account
Verb: Where do today’s public schools fail?
Verb: The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably
Verb: His sense of smell failed him this time
Verb: His strength finally failed him
Verb: His children failed him in the crisis
Verb: The engine finally went
Verb: The car died on the road
Verb: The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
Verb: The coffee maker broke
Verb: The engine failed on the way to town
Verb: her eyesight went after the accident
Verb: I fail to understand your motives
Verb: The teacher failed six students
Verb: She studied hard but failed nevertheless
Verb: Did I fail the test?
Verb: She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law
Verb: We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust
Verb: The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor
Verb: A number of banks failed that year
Verb: The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
Verb: Her health is declining

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): betray, bomb, break, break down, conk out, die, fail, flunk, flush it, give out, give way, go, go bad, go wrong, miscarry, neglect, run out

Antonyms(反意語): manage, pass, succeed

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, disappoint, evaluate, worsen

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accept, acetylate, adjust, alkalinize, americanize, approve, ascend, assibilate, assign, assimilate, assume, barbarize, boil, break, break into, brutalize, calcify, calculate, capacitate, carbonate, caseate, catch, catch on, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, choose, clinker, collapse, come, come in, come round, commute, complexify, concretize, conjugate, convert, cool, crack, crash, creolize, cure, damage, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, declare, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deoxidize, deprive, desalinate, destabilize, develop, devolve, die, digest, dim, disapprove, discolor, disenchant, dissimilate, distill, dress, drift, drop, dry, dull, evaporate, expect, fail, fall, fall for, fall short, felt, feminize, flip, flocculate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freshen, gel, gelatinize, give way, glaze, go out, gradate, grow, gum, harden, have, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, impute, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, inflame, introject, ionize, isomerize, keratinize, leave, liberalize, lighten, make, mature, measure, mellow, modernize, modify, mold, move, mutate, narrow, normalize, obsolesce, occult, opacify, oxidise, oxidize, pall, pass, plasticize, play out, prejudge, prim, professionalize, promote, purify, rate, reappraise, recede, receive, recombine, reflate, regenerate, regress, reject, rejuvenate, relax, reorient, repress, resume, reticulate, review, rise, roll, salinate, saponify, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shallow, shear, shift, sicken, slip, smoothen, soften, solarize, spot, stabilize, stagnate, stand, steepen, stiffen, stratify, strengthen, sublime, suburbanize, suffer, suffuse, superannuate, swing, synthesize, test, think, tighten, transaminate, transform, transpire, tumble, turn, turn down, turn on, ulcerate, undergo, undulate, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrify, vulcanize, warm, warm up

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): blow out, botch, choke, crash, default, fall, fall through, lose track, malfunction, misfire, miss, muff, overreach, shipwreck, strike out, take it on the chin

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: bomb, breakable, breakdown, failing, failure, miscarriage, neglect

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検4級

TOEIC600

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: