Flunk

Definition: Flunk

Flunk

Verb

1. Fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?".

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

Synonyms: Flunk

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.

Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk.

Learning

Flunk out; be dismissed;

Crosswords: Flunk

You're supposed to be home doing my history paper. I flunk that class, you're in big trouble with Snyder (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You're gonna flunk out if you don't study (Love Story; writing credit: Erich Segal)

Then I'll flunk you. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

Are you saying you'll flunk us if we don't change the world (Pay It Forward; writing credit: Leslie Dixon)

Get the flunk out of here (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

Books

• How to Flunk Your First Date (reference)

  (more book examples)

Expression using "flunk": flunk out. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏سقط في إمتحان, ‏طرد من الكلية, ‏خفق يفشل (bust, miscarry), ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip). (various references)

Czech

rupnout, propadnout (expire, fail, fall through, lapse, surrender). (various references)

Finnish

reputtaa (fail), reput (fail). (various references)

French

se planter, se faire virer, se dérober (flinch), louper, être recalé, être collé. (various references)

German

durchfallen (fail). (various references)

Greek 

αποτυγχάνω (fail), αποτυχία (failure). (various references)

Hebrew 

להכשיל (cause failure, impede, lead astray, make err, stump, thwart, trip, trip up), להכשל במשימה (fall down on the job). (various references)

Hungarian

megbukik (to be plucked, to fall flat). (various references)

Italian

essere bocciato (fail). (various references)

Norwegian

gi strykkarakter, avvise (denounce, discredit). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fracasso (abortion, bloomer, bust, failure, flop, frost, ill-conceived), fracassar (abort, bust, fail, flop, lose out), fiasco (fiasco), ser reprovado, reprovação (condemnation, disapproval), representar mal, recuar (backpedal, blench, boggle, crawfish, flinch, indent, kick, off, quail, recede, recoil, retire, retreat), levar pau, esquivar-se (blench, flinch). (various references)

Romanian

trânti (bounce, hit, knock down, overthrow, plough, pluck, plump, slam, throw, toss), pica (drip, drop, drop in, fall, pop in, spin). (various references)

Russian 

срезать (detruncate). (various references)

Spanish

fracaso (failure, fiasco, flop), fracasar en un examen, zanguanga, suspender (reject). (various references)

Swedish

underkänna (fail), kugga (pluck), köra (drive), bli kuggad, betjänt (servant, footman, valet). (various references)

Thai

ให้คะแนนการสอบต่ำ, สอบตก, การสอบตก. (various references)

Turkish

sınıfta kalma (plough, plow), sınıfta bırakmak (keep down, plough, plow, pluck), okuldan almak, kalmak (abide, be left, be left over, bed, come to, continue, devolve, fail, keep, keep to, leave, put up, refuge, remain, rest with, room, sleep, stand, stay, stop, survive, Tarry, wait), kalma (arrearage, remaining, stay, staying, survival), başarısız olmak (collapse, come unstuck, fail, fall by the wayside, fall flat, fall through, make sorry show), başarısız olma, çakmak (be aware of, be ploughed, be plowed, beetle, cotton on to, drive, drive in, flash, gaslighter, ground, hammer, land, lighter, pitch, ram, root, rumble, spin, stick, strike, tack, tack down, twig, understand). (various references)

Ukrainian

ухилятися (avoid, back out, balk, blench, crawfish, depart, digress, dodge, elude, equivocate, eschew, evade, jink, obviate, prevaricate, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, squirm, weasel, weave, wriggle), провалитися (fall through, unstick, wash up). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flunk": flunked, flunker, flunkers, flunkey, flunkeys, flunkies, flunking, flunks, flunky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Filenko, flinc, Flink, flonk, floun, flounk, fluck, flun, flunck, flunt, fuln, Funck, Lunk. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: funk, lunk.

-2 letters: flu, fun.

-3 letters: nu, un.

+1 letter: flunks, flunky.

+2 letters: fluking, flunked, flunker, flunkey, skinful, tankful.

+3 letters: cufflink, faunlike, flunkers, flunkeys, flunkies, flunking, outflank, skinfuls, tankfuls, thankful, trunkful.

+4 letters: cufflinks, outflanks, trunkfuls, trunksful.

+5 letters: outflanked, thankfully, unskillful.