Fail vs. Flunk — What's the Difference?

Be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal

Flunk is a Norwegian electronic band consisting of producer Ulf Nygaard, guitarist Jo Bakke, vocalist Anja Øyen Vister and bassist Ole Kristian Wetten. Jo Bakke was a drummer with Flunk until 2020.

Neglect to do something

To fail, especially in a course or an examination.

Cease to work properly; break down

To fail (an examination or course).

A mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test

To give a failing grade to (a student).

A mistake, failure, or instance of poor performance

To fail (a drug test, as for a performance enhancing substance).

To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately

A failure.

To be unsuccessful

A failing grade.

To be unsuccessful in being acted upon

Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.

To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.

Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.

To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out

To shirk (a task or duty).

To decline, as in strength or effectiveness

To back out through fear. (Commonly in the phrase 'flunk it', the 'it' referring to a specific task avoided; sometimes without specific reference, describing a person's attitude to life in general.)

To cease functioning properly

To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain

To fail in; to fail to pass (a test, examination, or course of study).

To become bankrupt or insolvent

To shirk, as a task or duty.

To disappoint or prove undependable to

A failure or backing out

To abandon; forsake

Fail to get a passing grade;

To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example)

To leave undone; neglect

To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example)

To give such a grade of failure to (a student)

To be detected by (a drug test) as having used a banned substance.

A failing grade

(Informal) Something that does not achieve the desired result; a failure

(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.

(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

(transitive) To neglect.

(intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

(ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

(transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

To miss attaining; to lose.

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

(archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

(archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

(archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

(obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.

(obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

(slang) A failure condition of being unsuccessful.

A failure something incapable of success.

A failure, especially of a financial transaction a termination of an action.

A failing grade in an academic examination.

Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

A piece of turf cut from grassland.

Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.

To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; - used with of.

To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

To perish; to die; - used of a person.

To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.

To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.

To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent; as, many credit unions failed in the late 1980's.

To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.

To miss of attaining; to lose.

Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; - mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

Death; decease.

Fail to do something; leave something undone;

Be unsuccessful;

Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake;

Stop operating or functioning;

Be unable;

Judge unacceptable;

Fail to get a passing grade;

Fall short in what is expected;

Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close;

Prove insufficient;

Get worse;