NOUN | act | nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | an act that does not achieve its intended goal |
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Meaning | An act that does not achieve its intended goal. | |
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Synonym | nonachievement | |
Narrower | failure | An act that fails |
mistake, error, fault | A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | |
negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance | failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | |
Broader | act, deed, human action, human activity | Something that people do or cause to happen |
Spanish | malogro | |
Catalan | malguany |
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