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Definitions for Fault

[1] a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
[2] responsibility for failure or a wrongful act: It is my fault that we have not finished.
[3] an error or mistake: a fault in addition.
[4] a misdeed or transgression: to confess one's faults.
[5] Sports . (in tennis, handball, etc.) a ball that when served does not land in the proper section of an opponent's court. a failure to serve the ball according to the rules, as from within a certain area.
[6] Geology , Mining . a break in the continuity of a body of rock or of a vein, with dislocation along the plane of the fracture (fault plane) .
[7] Manège . (of a horse jumping in a show) any of a number of improper executions in negotiating a jump, as a tick, knockdown, refusal, or run-out.
[8] Electricity . a partial or total local failure in the insulation or continuity of a conductor or in the functioning of an electric system.
[9] Hunting . a break in the line of scent; a losing of the scent; check.
[10] Obsolete . lack; want.
[11] to commit a fault; blunder; err.
[12] Geology . to undergo faulting.
[13] Geology . to cause a fault in.
[14] to find fault with, blame, or censure.
[15] at fault , open to censure; blameworthy: to be at fault for a mistake. in a dilemma; puzzled: to be at fault as to where to go. (of hounds) unable to find the scent.
[16] find fault , to seek and make known defects or flaws; complain; criticize: He constantly found fault with my behavior.
[17] to a fault , to an extreme degree; excessively: She was generous to a fault.
[18] an imperfection; failing or defect; flaw
[19] a mistake or error
[20] an offence; misdeed
[21] responsibility for a mistake or misdeed; culpability
[22] electronics a defect in a circuit, component, or line, such as a short circuit
[23] geology a fracture in the earth's crust resulting in the relative displacement and loss of continuity of the rocks on either side of it
[24] tennis squash badminton an invalid serve, such as one that lands outside a prescribed area
[25] (in showjumping) a penalty mark given for failing to clear or refusing a fence, exceeding a time limit, etc
[26] hunting an instance of the hounds losing the scent
[27] deficiency; lack; want
[28] at fault guilty of error; culpable perplexed (of hounds) having temporarily lost the scent
[29] find fault to seek out minor imperfections or errors (in); carp (at)
[30] to a fault excessively
[31] geology to undergo or cause to undergo a fault
[32] (tr) to find a fault in, criticize, or blame
[33] (intr) to commit a fault

Words related to Fault

omission, negligence, defect, misconduct, offense, indiscretion, crime, wrongdoing, responsibility, oversight, flaw, weakness, liability, wrong, misdeed, miscue, lapse, failing, blunder, transgression

Words nearby Fault

faugh, fauld, faulkner, faulkner, william, faulknerian, fault, fault block, fault breccia, fault line, fault plane, fault scarp

Origin of Fault

1250–1300; Middle English faute < Anglo-French, Middle French < Vulgar Latin *fallita, noun use of feminine of *fallitus, for Latin falsus, past participle of fallere to be wrong

Other words from Fault

post·fault , noun

Word origin for Fault

C13: from Old French faute , from Vulgar Latin fallita (unattested), ultimately from Latin fallere to fail

Synonyms for Fault

blunder, crime, defect, error, failing, flaw, guilt, indiscretion, lapse, liability, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, negligence, offense, omission, oversight, responsibility, transgression, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing, accountability, answerability, culpability, delinquency, dereliction, foible, frailty, impropriety, inaccuracy, infirmity, malfeasance, malpractice, misdemeanor, onus, slip, slip-up, solecism, trespass, vice, evil doing, loss of innocence, peccancy