nonachievement

Definitions of nonachievement

1. noun

   an act that does not achieve its intended goal
   synonyms: nonaccomplishment

   types:

   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

   type of:

   act, deed, human action, human activity

   something that people do or cause to happen