Fault Meaning and Definition

Word: Fault

How to pronounce: fɔːlt

Noun

Definitions:

1. An unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character.

Example sentences: "My worst fault is impatience"

2. Responsibility for an accident or misfortune.

Example sentences: "It was his fault she had died"

3. An extended break in a body of rock, marked by the relative displacement and discontinuity of strata on either side of a particular surface.

Example sentences: "A landscape broken by numerous faults"

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Criticize for inadequacy or mistakes.

Example sentences: "Her colleagues and superiors could not fault her dedication to the job"

2. (of a rock formation) be broken by a fault or faults.

Example sentences: "Rift valleys where the crust has been stretched and faulted"

Synonyms:

malfunction

defect

denial

vice

faultiness

deformity

guilt

culpability

sin

responsibility

censure

onus

blame

flaw

shortcoming

demerit

imperfection

disfigurement

outage

interruption

breakage

fracture

trip

short circuit

failure

mistake

error

lapse

dereliction

oversight

slipup

screwup

miscue

inaccuracy

fluff

fail

problem

accident

trouble

failing

weakness

frailty

misstep

shift

break

blunder

gaffe

goof

flub

want

denounce

condemn

slip

Antonyms:

nonfault

Derivations:

faulted

faulting

faulty

faultless

faultily

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Fault in Other Languages...

Spanish: Falla

German: Fehler

French: Faute

Italian: Guasto

Turkish: Hatasız