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Failing

Failing Meaning & Definition
Failing Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Failing?

[n] failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"
[n] a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"
[adj] going from better to worse
[adj] below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
[adj] unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Failing: declining | deteriorating | failed | regressing | regressive | retrograde | retrogressive | unsatisfactory | unsuccessful | weakness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Failing: abortive | arrested | bad habit | besetting sin | blemish | blind spot | bootless | bug | cachectic | callow | catch | comedown | coming apart | crack | cracking | crumbling | debasement | debilitated | decadence | decadency | decadent | declension | declination | decline | declining | defect | defection | defective | deficiency | deficient | deformation | degeneracy | degenerate | degenerateness | degeneration | degradation | demotion | depravation | depravedness | depreciation | derogation | descent | deteriorating | deterioration | devolution | disintegrating | downtrend | downturn | downward mobility | downward trend | drained | draining | drawback | drooping | drop | dwindling | dying | ebb | ebbing | effete | effeteness | embryonic | enervated | exhausted | fading | failed | failure | failure of nerve | fall | falling | falling-off | fault | faute | feeble | flagging | flaw | foible | found wanting | fragmenting | frail | frailty | fruitless | futile | going to pieces | healthless | hole | hypoplastic | immature | imperfect | imperfection | in arrear | in arrears | in default | in default of | in poor health | in short supply | inadequacy | inadequate | incompetent | incomplete | ineffective | ineffectual | inefficacious | infant | infirm | infirmity | insufficient | invalid | involution | kink | lacking | lame | languishing | lapse | little problem | loss of tone | manque | marcescent | miscarried | miscarrying | missing | moral flaw | moribund | needing | not enough | of no effect | pale | part | partial | patchy | peaked | peaky | pining | problem | reduced | reduced in health | regression | regressive | retrocession | retrogradation | retrograde | retrogression | retrogressive | rift | run-down | sans | scant | scanty | scarce | scrappy | short | shortcoming | shriveling | shy | sickly | sinking | sketchy | sliding | slippage | slipping | slump | slumping | snag | something missing | stickit | stillborn | subsiding | successless | tabetic | taint | too little | underdeveloped | undeveloped | unequal to | unfortunate | unhealthy | unqualified | unsatisfactory | unsatisfying | unsound | unsuccessful | unsufficing | useless | valetudinarian | valetudinary | vice | vulnerable place | wane | waning | wanting | wasting | weak link | weak point | weak side | weakened | weakly | weakness | wilting | with low resistance | withering | without | worsening

See Also | failure | fatigue | flaw | imperfection | imperfectness | inadequacy | insufficiency

Failing In Webster's Dictionary

\Fail"ing\, n. 1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. --Tennyson. 2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt. Syn: See {Fault}.

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