The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SUNK , but the solution may also be DOOMED which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in Wall Street Journal).
Bound to fail crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SUNK | 43 % | 4 |
| NOWIN | 43 % | 5 |
| DOOMED | 14 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bound to fail
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- doomed
- futile
- hopeless
- pointless
- vain
- ineffective
- meaninglessness
- churn
- uselessness
- valueless
- ineffectiveness
- inefficient
Crossword Answer definitions
SUNK verb- (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
- (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
- To conceal and appropriate.
- To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- To pay absolutely.
- To reduce or extinguish by payment.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SUNK
- Beyond help
- Gone under
- Done for
- At the bottom, say
- Gone to Davy Jones's locker
- Submerged
- Beyond saving
- Doomed
- Like costs that can't be recovered, in economists' lingo
- Sent underwater
More clues leading to the result NOWIN
- Kind of situation
- Futile
- Like a Catch-22
- ___ situation (lost cause)
- Sort of situation
- Hopeless, as a situation
- Unpromising, as a situation
- Like hopeless situations
- "It's a ___ situation!"
- Hopeless, as situations go