Failure and Want

Failure

Failure noun - A falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number.

Usage example: the failure of the potato crop had a devastating effect on the population of Ireland

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Want and failure are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Want" instead a noun "Failure".

Nearby Words: fail, failing, failed

Want noun - The fact or state of being absent.

Usage example: the proverb that begins, “for want of a nail, the shoe was lost”

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Failure and want are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Failure" instead a noun "Want".

Nearby Words: wanting, wanted

special	special failure	special want
complete	complete failure	complete want
total	total failure	total want
actual	actual failure	actual want
Other adjectives: real, constant, big, great, horrible, absolute, personal, possible, last.

Failure Is the Only Option: If you want to actually finish the game, you have to release Ahriman despite having spent the past god-knows-how-many hours sealing him away.

Source: Video Game / Prince of Persia (2008)
Yuthura: Any failure to get the results I want is due to a lack of power on my part.

Source: Video Game / Knights of the Old Republic
Attempting to infiltrate the bandit camp by going the Stupid Evil route (by telling the bandits that you want to join because you want to kill people) will end in failure when the bandits tell you they don't need psycho killers working for them.

Source: Stupid Evil

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