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say it: foyld
foiled is an adjective meaning "disappointingly unsuccessful". It is pronounced /ˈfɔɪld/ — foyld. It carries one recorded sense.
disappointingly unsuccessful
“disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions”
“their foiled attempt to capture Calais”
“many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers”
“his best efforts were thwarted”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for foiled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.