'Failing' definitions:
Definition of 'failing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
noun
A flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings" [syn: failing, weakness]
noun
Failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report" [syn: failing, flunk] [ant: pass, passing, qualifying]
Definition of 'Failing'
From: GCIDE
- Fail \Fail\ (f[=a]l) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Failed (f[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Failing.] [F. failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See Fail, and cf. Fallacy, False, Fault.]
- 1. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. [1913 Webster]
- As the waters fail from the sea. --Job xiv. 11. [1913 Webster]
- Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of. [1913 Webster]
- If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size. --Berke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. [1913 Webster]
- When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To perish; to die; -- used of a person. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Had the king in his last sickness failed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation. [1913 Webster]
- Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. --Ezra iv. 22. [1913 Webster]
- Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired; to be baffled or frusrated. [1913 Webster]
- Our envious foe hath failed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken. [1913 Webster]
- Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent; as, many credit unions failed in the late 1980's. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Failing'
From: GCIDE
- Failing \Fail"ing\, n.
- 1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. [1913 Webster]
- And ever in her mind she cast about For that unnoticed failing in herself. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
- Syn: See Fault. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'failing'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'failing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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