Imagine this situation. You bought a new expensive jacket, went out into it, and then the first car passing by abundantly sprayed your new thing. So what to remove will be oh how difficult. How can one describe this situation with one decent word? Only one thing comes to mind - failure. This is what fate ordered. She did not want you to pace around the city in a new jacket, and all the passers-by were envious of you. This article will talk about the bitter word "failure."
Failure is part of speech
Let's distract from the soiled jacket and turn to linguistics. To correctly use the word "failure", you need to know what kind of part of speech it is: an adjective, a union, or, possibly, participle.
Here you need to make a sentence with the word failure, even the most primitive. A hint will lurk in it.
- "Failure is frustrating."
Let us analyze the meaning of the word "failure" in this sentence, what it expresses. First of all, it is worth noting that it does not indicate an action or a sign of something. This is some kind of abstract concept. For example, with the word “failure”, concrete pictures immediately appear in the imagination: a broken heel, a deuce in Russian, or an electric train that has left without you. What a bad luck!
This word indicates an abstract concept. Logically, you can guess that it answers the question "what?". In the above sentence, it performs the action: "(what?) Failure (what does?) Upsets." That is, this is a noun. It is feminine. There is a plural form - "failure".
The lexical meaning of the word
Now, with a part of the speech, questions should not arise. It remains to determine the meaning of "failure." What does this word mean? The answer is easiest to find in the explanatory dictionary.
This is a negative result, which is obtained as a result of any action. It implies the failure of a business, event, promises bad consequences.
It is worth noting that failure is the word with the most neutral stylistically colored. It can be used in all styles of speech.
There are more than enough examples of failures in life. For example, a student teaches all exam tickets, but the latter is already lacking strength. And this undereducated ill-fated ticket comes across the exam. Failure, to say the least!
Examples of offers
To better remember the meaning of the word “failure”, it is recommended that you make a few sentences with this gloomy noun. They will fully illustrate its interpretation.
- "It seems that a series of setbacks has come in my life."
- "After the failure, a bright streak surely sets in, do not despair."
- "You still don't know what the bitter failures that cross out your whole life mean."
- "Failure will make you stronger, this is an important lesson."
- "Do not reproach yourself for failures, ideal people do not exist."
- "During the rest, failure happened to me: I broke my leg."
- "What could be worse than the failure that a person refuses to accept with honor?"
- "Failure cannot break a strong warrior spirits."
Synonyms Selection
Of course, “failure” is an unpleasant word. I want it to not be used at all in our vocabulary. Here are just no escape from failures. In the Russian language there are several more words that describe this sad phenomenon. Here are some of them (you can find them in the synonym dictionary):
- Failure. "The project ended in failure."
- Defeat. "One must steadfastly accept defeat and think positively."
- Accident. "Despite the accident fate gave me yesterday, I continue to smile."
- Trouble. "Unexpectedly, misfortune came, and everything that I had planned so carefully, instantly perished, sank into oblivion."
- Catastrophe. "In order to protect your life from disaster, first you think carefully, and only then you can talk."
Selection of antonyms for the word "failure"
We will smoothly move from failure to something more positive. More precisely, to the antonyms. This noun has words that have the opposite lexical meaning. They can be found very quickly in any dictionary of antonyms.
- Good luck (just take the prefix "non-"). "May luck be your constant companion."
- Success. "It seems to me that success and failure largely depend not on external circumstances, but on the mood of a person."
- Luck. "Here is a man, constantly accompanied by some amazing luck!"
- Prosperity. "I wish you only prosperity in all your affairs."
- Talan. "There will be talent, then all your ideas will be fulfilled."
Signs of failure
Since olden times, people believed that some combination of circumstances promised failure. Some event happened, and that’s all, a man is waiting for a stained jacket. Or an unlearned ticket (if we talk about modern realities).
For example, a bird that accidentally got into the house was considered the cause of failures, and quite large ones. It’s like a dead relative. The sign is extremely bad. By the way, butterflies in the house were just as hostile.
Some beliefs promising failure have survived to this day. For example, do not congratulate the birthday party in advance. And then you can’t reach the celebration. This is worse than failure.
It was also considered a failure to sprinkle salt. It is understandable. Salt was an expensive thing. This one, as it is, is now turned into half a can of red caviar, and then wait for cordiality.
Misfortune also promised a brick that fell out of the furnace. Say, this is a threat to the hearth. This belief can definitely be considered true. Have to spend money on repairing the stove.
In a word, some unfortunate signs remain relevant to this day. Others cause only a grin.
How to deal with failures?
What can be done so that failures go home and no longer cross the road? For example, according to one legend, a meeting with a hunchbacked person is considered good luck. Better yet, touch his hump so that happiness can be felt. But just do not accept you for a madman? Yes, and you can look out for people with impaired posture for a long time.
Fortunately, they still beat dishes. That's just very rich people can afford. There is something out of something. Not from a chopped up bowl soup to slurp?
There is one surefire way that will help defeat failure. This is positive thinking and the right attitude. Man must deal with failure.
You can sit on the stove and wait for the bird of happiness to fly, then everything will be fine. However, this is just a fairy tale. No wonder they say that a man forges his own happiness. He should overcome failures on his own, not blame fate, but take the reins of government in his own hands. Then all the problems will go away.