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epic fail

epic fail noun: an utter failure, especially where success should have been reasonably expected.

Noun

epic fail (plural epic fails)

  1. (Internet) An utter failure, especially where success should have been reasonably expected.
    • Bzzt! Wrong answer! That's what the kids call "epic fail."2011, Peter Gould, “Problem Dog”, in Breaking Bad, season 4, episode 7 (television production), spoken by Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk)
    • Maybe next the cloud overhead would open up and a huge cartoon hand emerge from below, pointing at him, accompanied by a thunderous, authorial voice: TOM MERCER. EPIC FAIL.2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 131

epic fail meaning in Tamil

epic fail in Tamil

கடுந்தோல்வி

Examples of epic fail in a sentence

  • “What, you thought you could flee to Canada and hide from your epic fail? […]2014, Lauren Morrill, Being Sloane Jacobs, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 95:
  • So yeah, epic fail on my part when I didn't recognize one of Kubrick's most iconic works, 2001: A Space Odyssey.2014, Leah Raeder, Unteachable, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 29:
  • I was happy with my new, more sophisticated haircut but the rest of my efforts were pretty much epic fail.2014, Sheila Agnew, Central Park Showdown, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:
  • The danger of using Epic Fury, as any political consultant could have warned the White House, is that if the war is not perceived as successful, it could easily be mocked as Operation Epic Fail.2026 March 16, Peter Baker, “In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y....

Forms of epic fail

pluralepic fails

Words formed from epic fail

Questions about epic fail

What does epic fail mean?
Epic fail means an utter failure, especially where success should have been reasonably expected.
What is epic fail in Tamil?
Epic fail in Tamil is கடுந்தோல்வி. See Epic fail meaning in Tamil.
How do you use epic fail in a sentence?
“What, you thought you could flee to Canada and hide from your epic fail? […]
What part of speech is epic fail?
Epic fail is a noun.
What is the plural of epic fail?
The plural of epic fail is epic fails.

Words near epic fail in the dictionary

  1. epibyssate
  2. epic
  3. epic catalogue
  4. Epic Cycle
  5. epic doom
  6. epic fail
  7. epic fails
  8. epic formula
  9. Epic Greek
  10. epic poem
  11. epic poetry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epic fail (page history and authors); epic fail (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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