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单词 nonachievement
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nonachievement
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WORD FAMILY
achievement: achievements, nonachievement+/achievable: achievability, unachievable/achieve: achievable, achieved, achievement, achiever, achieves, achieving, overachieve, underachieve/achiever: achievers, nonachiever/nonachiever: nonachievers/overachieve: overachieved, overachievement, overachiever, overachieves, overachieving/overachiever: overachievers/unachievable: unachievably/underachieve: underachievement, underachiever, underachieves, underachieving/underachiever: underachievers
USAGE EXAMPLES
Our current era of nonachievement, of course, isn’t limited to our inability to build and repair physical things.
New York Times(Jul 23, 2010)
n an act that does not achieve its intended goal
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
nonaccomplishment
failure
an act that fails
error, fault, mistake
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformance
failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
failing, flunk
failure to reach a minimum required performance
naught
complete failure
loss
the act of losing someone or something
backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
a failure to maintain a higher state
error, misplay
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
confusion, mix-up
a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
incursion
the mistake of incurring liability or blame
miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning
a mistake in calculating
distortion
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up
a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
offside
(sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
lapse, oversight
a mistake resulting from inattention
omission, skip
a mistake resulting from neglect
bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall
an embarrassing mistake
balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up
something badly botched or muddled
out
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
dereliction
willful negligence
comparative negligence
(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
concurrent negligence
(law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately
contributory negligence
(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
criminal negligence, culpable negligence
(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
neglect of duty
(law) breach of a duty
dodging, escape, evasion
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
nonconformance, nonconformity
failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity
a stupid mistake
renege, revoke
the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
default, nonpayment, nonremittal
act of failing to meet a financial obligation
act, deed, human action, human activity
something that people do or cause to happen
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