nonachievement (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *nonachievement*:
NOUN	act	nonachievement, nonaccomplishment	an act that does not achieve its intended goal

English > *nonachievement*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	An act that does not achieve its intended goal.
Synonym	nonaccomplishment
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

HyperDic: nonachievement