All nonfeasance synonyms

noun nonfeasance

• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• abortion — If a woman has an abortion, she ends her pregnancy deliberately so that the baby is not born alive.
• bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
• bomb — A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
• botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
• bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
• bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
• checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.
• downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
• failing — Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
• fiasco — a complete and ignominious failure.
• flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
• frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
• implosion — the act of imploding; a bursting inward (opposed to explosion).
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
• lemon — the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
• loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• mess — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
• miscarriage — the expulsion of a fetus before it is viable, especially between the third and seventh months of pregnancy; spontaneous abortion. Compare abortion (def 1).
• misstep — a wrong step.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
• omission — the act of omitting.
• overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
• rout — a bellow.
• rupture — the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
• stalemate — Chess. a position of the pieces in which a player cannot move any piece except the king and cannot move the king without putting it in check.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• turkey — a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, especially Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and that is domesticated in most parts of the world.
• washout — a washing out of earth, gravel, etc., by water, as from an embankment or a roadway by heavy rain or by a flash flood.
• wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
• false step — a stumble.
• faux pas — a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
• flash in the pan — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
• lead balloon — a total failure
• success — the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.