Failure
Failure noun - Something that has failed.
Usage example: the students' first attempt to build a homemade rocket was a disappointing failure
Smash
Smash noun - A person or thing that is successful.
Usage example: the new Broadway musical is a smash
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Surprisingly after the Saturn's failure outside of Japan, the Dreamcast launch was a smash hit in North America, with more sales in the first months of its existence than any console before it.
Source: Useful Notes / Sega Dreamcast -
Arguably, it's game-defining enough to make it goofily enjoyable in its own right despite its failure to emulate Smash.
Source: Blown Across the Room - Bowser's charges are read something along the lines of "Participating in a Smash match, multiple attempts to abduct Princess Peach, and failure to appear for jury duty."
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Smash and Failure. (2016). Retrieved 2023, May 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/failure/smash
Failure & Smash. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 May. 2023. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/failure/smash>.
Smash or Failure. 2016. Accessed May 29, 2023. https://thesaurus.plus/related/failure/smash.
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