power failure

Questions about power failure

What is another word for power failure?

It depends which power failure you mean. In the sense “equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails”, the synonyms are power outage. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of power failure?

WordNet records no antonym for power failure. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for power failure come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of power failure

• Full entry for power failureAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for power failureWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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