Fault Synonyms and Antonyms

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A moral delinquency
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blemish
  2. failing
  3. foible
  4. misdemeanor
  5. defect
  6. delinquency
  7. offense
  8. weakness
  9. frailty
  10. vice
  11. dereliction
  12. flaw
  13. transgression
  14. sin
  15. imperfection
  16. peccadillo
  17. shortcoming
  18. wrongdoing
  19. misdeed
  20. crime
  21. bug
  22. blame
  23. impropriety
  24. solecism
  25. blunder
  26. captiousness
  27. moral shortcoming
  28. catachresis
  29. culpa
  30. culpability
  31. evil-doing
  32. cynicism
  33. default
  34. trespass
  35. deficiency
  36. fall from virtue
  37. faulting
  38. demerit
  39. fall-from-grace
  40. dislocation
  41. loss of innocence
  42. drawback
  43. dysfunction
  44. misconduct
  45. error
  46. malpractice
  47. flub
  48. malefaction
  49. geological fault
  50. malfeasance
  51. glitch
  52. indiscretion
  53. sins of omission and commission
  54. lapse
  55. liability
  56. mistake
  57. neglect
  58. negligence
  59. shift
  60. paralogism
  61. scrupulosity
  62. slip
  63. veniality
  64. wrong
  65. fracture
  66. break
An error
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mistake
  2. error
  3. blunder
  4. lapse
To find fault with
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blame
  2. censure
  3. criticize
  4. rap
  5. charge
  6. cut up
  7. pan
  8. accuse
  9. knock
Antonyms:
  1. absolve
Responsibility for a mistake or an offense; culpability.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blame
Something that impairs or detracts from physical perfection; a defect.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blemish
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. amiss
  2. catachrestic
  3. dilapidated
  4. faulty
  5. imperfect
  6. mea culpa
  7. paralogistic
  8. suboptimal
  9. substandard
  10. unsound

Words Related to Fault

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. beautiful
  2. start
  3. praise
  4. better
  5. normal fault reverse fault strike-slip fault thrust fault transform fault
  6. responsibility
  7. help
  8. malfunction
  9. faults
  10. human-error

Fault Sentence Examples

  • Don't dare to say it was her fault.

  • It's all your fault, you know.

  • I am afraid I find fault with the poem as much as I enjoy it.

  • They're as much at fault as him.

  • I'm sorry I was rude to you, and I know it's not your fault you look so good in that suit.

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