Adjacent Words

flunk definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report" [syn: failing, flunk] [ant: pass, passing, qualifying] v
1: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: perhaps blend of flinch and funk Date: 1823 intransitive verb to fail especially in an examination or course transitive verb 1. to give a failing grade to 2. to get a failing grade or result in • flunker noun II. noun Date: 1846 an act or instance of flunking

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. US colloq. --v. 1 tr. a fail (an examination etc.). b fail (an examination candidate). 2 intr. (often foll. by out) fail utterly; give up. --n. an instance of flunking. Phrases and idioms: flunk out be dismissed from school etc. after failing an examination. Etymology: cf. FUNK(1) and obs. flink be a coward

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flunk Flunk, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flunked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flunking.] [Cf. Funk.] To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flunk Flunk, v. t. To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty. [Colloq. U.S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flunk Flunk, n. A failure or backing out; specifically (College cant), a total failure in a recitation. [U.S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(flunks, flunking, flunked) If you flunk an exam or a course, you fail to reach the required standard. (mainly AM INFORMAL) Your son is upset because he flunked a history exam. = fail VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

be found wanting, be unsuccessful, bollix, botch, bungle, bust, come to grief, fail, fail of success, fiasco, flunk out, foozle, go bankrupt, hash, labor in vain, lose, mess, muddle, not come off, not pass, not work, wash out, washout