LekhoriLekhoriState or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.
From Anglo-Norman failer, from Old French faillir (“to fail”). Equivalent to fail + -ure.
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