- fallido
- adj.1 failed, unsuccessful, faulty.2 insolvent.m.bankrupt.past part.past participle of spanish verb: fallir.* * *fallido► adjetivo1 unsuccessful, frustrated\FRASEOLOGÍAdeuda fallida COMERCIO bad debt* * *ADJ1) [esfuerzo] unsuccessful; [esperanza] disappointed; [deuda] bad, irrecoverable; (Mec, Mil) dud
un tiro fallido — a missed shot, a shot wide of the mark o target
2) Caribe (Com) (=quebrado) bankrupt* * *-da adjetivoa) <intento/esfuerzo> failed (before n)un tiro fallido — a shot that missed
b) (Com, Fin) <comerciante> bankruptcréditos fallidos — bad debts
* * *= abortive, failed, unsuccessful, bungled.Ex. The Consumers' Association had been founded in 1957 following a similar abortive service set up by the British Standards Institution two years previously.Ex. The project studies the interaction between users and automated information retrieval systems with the aim of reducing the number of failed searches.Ex. Hundreds of unsuccessful children's books are written by practising mothers and only a few are lucky enough to have their work published.Ex. He was also blamed for the bungled imposition of a state of emergency in Nyasaland in March 1959.----* intento de atraco fallido = failed robbery attempt.* intento de robo fallido = failed robbery attempt.* intento fallido = failed attempt, bungled attempt.* resultar fallido = nothing + come of.* * *-da adjetivoa) <intento/esfuerzo> failed (before n)un tiro fallido — a shot that missed
b) (Com, Fin) <comerciante> bankruptcréditos fallidos — bad debts
* * *= abortive, failed, unsuccessful, bungled.Ex: The Consumers' Association had been founded in 1957 following a similar abortive service set up by the British Standards Institution two years previously.
Ex: The project studies the interaction between users and automated information retrieval systems with the aim of reducing the number of failed searches.Ex: Hundreds of unsuccessful children's books are written by practising mothers and only a few are lucky enough to have their work published.Ex: He was also blamed for the bungled imposition of a state of emergency in Nyasaland in March 1959.* intento de atraco fallido = failed robbery attempt.* intento de robo fallido = failed robbery attempt.* intento fallido = failed attempt, bungled attempt.* resultar fallido = nothing + come of.* * *fallido1 -daadjective1 ‹intento/esfuerzo› failed (before n)un tiro fallido a shot that missed, a shot that went over/wide of the target2 (Com, Fin) ‹comerciante› bankruptcréditos fallidos bad debtsfallido2masculinebad debt* * *
fallido,-a adjetivo unsuccessful, vain
un intento fallido, a vain attempt
'fallido' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
fallida
English:
miss
- bankrupt
- bungle
- false
- unsuccessful
* * *fallido, -a adj[esfuerzo, intento] unsuccessful, failed; [esperanza] vain; [disparo] missed* * *fallidoadj1 esfuerzo failed, unsuccessful2:disparo fallido DEP miss* * *fallido, -da adj: failed, unsuccessful* * *fallido adj failed
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.