Fall Short

Definition: Fall Short

Fall Short

Verb

1. Fail to meet (expectations or standards).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Fall Short

Contraction

Be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to; (be inferior).

Failure

Verb: fail; be unsuccessful; Adjective: not succeed; make vain efforts;Noun: do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white; (impossible); roll the stones of Sisyphus; (useless); do by halves; (not complete); lose ground; (recede); fall short of.

Imperfection

Not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short.

Incompleteness

Verb: be incomplete; Adjective: fall short of; lack; (be insufficient); neglect.

Inferiority

Verb: be inferior; Adjective: fall short of, come short of; not pass, not come up to; want.

Noncompletion

Fall short of; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse.

Shortcoming

Verb:, come short of, fall short of, stop short of, come short, fall short, stop short; not reach; want; keep within bounds, keep within the mark, keep within the compass.

Crosswords: Fall Short

If you should fall short of your desires (Ain't No Mountain High Enough; performing artist: Diana Ross)

Fall Short (2003)

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Of the remaining 28, no less than 26 have sent in accidental solutions, and therefore fall short of the highest honours

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Business

Despite these reforms, the Criminal Procedure Law still would fall short of international standards in many respects if fully implemented. (references)

The disadvantage is that U.S. jeep type cars are not very luxurious and Greek car buyers who end up paying a lot of money for the vehicle due to its taxes are disappointed with their interiors which fall short compared to the Range Rovers or the new Mercedes four wheel drive. (references)

Children

Andorra

The Government provides free nursery schools, although the number of nursery schools continued to fall short of the needed number. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Because fiscal revenue projections consistently fall short, ad hoc expenditure reductions make it difficult to plan and execute much needed public investments. (references)

Ukraine

Although foreign direct investment (FDI) has risen since Independence, current levels fall short of fulfilling Ukraine's basic needs and pale in comparison to that of its Eastern and Central European neighbors. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

In the wake of September 11, some analysts expect that growth will fall short of these targets, falling below the five percent growth achieved in IFY 1997-98 in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis. (references)

Travel

Egypt

Facilities outside of Cairo fall short of U.S. standards. (references)

Nicaragua

However, they fall short of U.S. standards and are not recommended for serious conditions. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "fall short": fall short of ♦ fall short of one's aim ♦ fall short of one's expectation ♦ fall short of the mark ♦ To fall short. Additional references.

Albanian

nuk barazoj (fall short of), dështoj (abort, backfire, fail, fall down, fall short of, fall through, flop, go down the drain, go phut, lose, lose out, miscarry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كان غير كاف (fall short of), ‏لا يحقق الغرض (fall short of), ‏قصر عن بلوغ الهدف (fall short of). (various references)

Bulgarian 

не попадам в целта (fall short of the mark). (various references)

Chinese 

�"上不足�"下有余 (can pass muster, fall short of the best but be better than the worst), 差得多 (fall short by a large amount). (various references)

Czech

nedosáhnout èeho (fall short of). (various references)

Dutch

tekortschieten in (fall short of). (various references)

Esperanto

ekmanki al (fall short of). (various references)

Finnish

alittaa (be below, fall short of, underbid). (various references)

French

sans réussir � réaliser son but (fall short of), sans répondre � notre fin (fall short of), être insuffisant (fall short of), échouer (fail, fail through, fall short of, fall through). (various references)

German

zurückbleiben (be backward, be detained, be kept in, be left, be retarded, drag behind, fall behind, get behind, hang behind, lag, lag behind, linger, remain, remain behind, stay behind, stay on, to fall behind, to fall short, to stay behind, wait behind). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא ל�"צליח ל�"שי�', לא ל�"ספיק. (various references)

Hungarian

elvárástól elmarad. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

的に�"しない (fall short of the mark). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まとにたっしない (fall short of the mark). (various references)

Manx

failleil (decline, fail, failure). (various references)

Pig Latin

allfay ortshay.(various references)

Portuguese

faltar (be lacking, be missing, default, fail, lack, miss), não alcançar a meta, escassear (run low, run short of, want). (various references)

Romanian

fi insuficient, nu atinge ţintã. (various references)

Russian 

не хватать (come short, fail, fall short of, lack, run short), не долететь до цели. (various references)

Spanish

faltar (be lacking, be missing, break, default, evoke, fail, go back on, lack, lacking, leak, let down), no alcanzar (Miss). (various references)

Swedish

visa sig otillräcklig, brista (be lacking, break, burst, bust, crack, fail, give way, rupture, snap). (various references)

Turkish

kısa kalmak, erişememek. (various references)

Ukrainian

не вистачати (come short, lack), зазнати невдачі (abort, come to grief, fail, fall down, fall through, flop, miss the bus, mucker). (various references)

claudamus, claudat, claude, claudent, claudentur, clauderetur, claudet, claudetur, claudeturque, claudi, claudicabat, claudicantem, claudicatis, claudicaverunt, claudit, clauditis, clausa, clausae, clausas, clauserat, clauserit, clausero, clauserunt, clausi, clausis, clausisset, clausit, clausitque, clauso, clausos, clausum, clausus, claususque, decessit, defui, desum, desum, defui, deesse. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shortfall.

-2 letters: florals, harlots, shallot, thralls.

-3 letters: allots, atolls, floats, floral, floras, flotas, froths, hallos, hallot, harlot, hollas, lotahs, safrol, shofar, stroll, thrall, tolars, torahs, trolls.

-4 letters: allot, aloft, altho, altos, atoll, falls, farls, faros, fatso, flash, flats, float, flora, flota, foals, forth, forts, frats, frosh, frost, froth, hafts, hallo, halls, halos, halts, harls, harts.

+1 letter: shortfalls.