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Synonyms for fault
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fawlt |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔlt |
Top 10 synonyms for fault Other synonyms for the word fault
- accountability
- answerability
- blemish
- culpability
- debility
- delinquency
- demerit
- dereliction
- evil doing
- foible
- frailty
- impropriety
- inaccuracy
- infirmity
- lack
- lapse
- liability
- loss of innocence
- malfeasance
- malpractice
- misconduct
- miscue
- misdeed
- misdemeanor
- negligence
- offense
- omission
- onus
- oversight
- peccancy
- pimple
- responsibility
- shortcoming
- slip
- slip-up
- solecism
- transgression
- trespass
- vice
- weak point
- weakness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
- zit
Définition of fault
Origin :- late 13c., faute, "deficiency," from Old French faute (12c.) "opening, gap; failure, flaw, blemish; lack, deficiency," from Vulgar Latin *fallita "a shortcoming, falling," noun use of fem. past participle, from Latin falsus "deceptive, feigned, spurious," past participle of fallere "deceive, disappoint" (see fail).
- The -l- was restored 16c., probably in imitation of Latin, but was not pronounced till 18c. Sense of "physical defect" is from early 14c.; that of "moral culpability" is first recorded late 14c. Geological sense is from 1796. The use in tennis (c.1600) is closer to the etymological sense.
- noun blame, sin; mistake
- noun physical defect
- I will not punish your fault so severely as Alcibiades ventured to hope.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- He had not intended this; it seemed hardly his fault: his intentions had been good, or at least not bad.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- I forgive you, if you are sorry for the fault, and my arms are ready to receive you.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Now I shall be expelled from college and it is all your fault.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- When such persons wilfully err, how great must be the fault!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- His horse, accustomed to a more open country, was continually at fault.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- The hunters were roving the open, and even Hal Dozier was at fault.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- I am sure it was not thus my fault you had not, although you treat me thus.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- It is not my fault, Bella, the opportune gentleman don't come!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
Antonyms for fault
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