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[ fˈe͡ɪlɪŋ], [ fˈeɪlɪŋ], [ f_ˈeɪ_l_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for failing:- abortive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- degenerate (adjective)
- disappointing (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- infirm (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- lightweight (adjective)
- not well, weak (adjective)
- poorly (adjective)
- scant/scanty (adjective)
- scarce (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- skimpy (adjective)
- wanting (adjective)
- Achilles heel (noun)
- abandonment (noun)
- chink in one's armor (noun)
- decay (noun)
- decline (noun)
- defect (noun)
- defection (noun)
- deficiency (noun)
- deteriorating (noun)
- difficulty, trouble (noun)
- disadvantage(s) (noun)
- failing (noun)
- failure (noun)
- fault (noun)
- flaw (noun)
- frailty (noun)
- guilt (noun)
- imperfection (noun)
- inadequacy (noun)
- infirmity (noun)
- insolvency (noun)
- insubstantiality (noun)
- lapse (noun)
- lapse, shortcoming (noun)
- nonfeasance (noun)
- omission (noun)
- putrefaction (noun)
- recreance (noun)
- unsoundness (noun)
- unsuccess (noun)
- unsuccessfulness (noun)
- weakness (noun)
- weak point (noun)
- failing (verb)
- neglecting (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Failing:
adj.
•abortive (adjective)- in-effectual,
- ineffective,
- more miscarried,
- more ineffective,
- in-effective,
- most failed,
- un productive,
- more failed,
- failed,
- un-availing,
- mis carried,
- un successful,
- un-successful,
- un-productive,
- in effectual,
- most miscarried,
- in effective,
- mis-carried,
- un availing.
- de-graded,
- most worsen,
- in famous,
- de-cadent,
- de-generated,
- infamous,
- more worsen,
- de generate,
- more flatitious,
- un-healthiest,
- more vitiated,
- de-based,
- de generated,
- de graded,
- more demeaned,
- most demeaned,
- more overripe,
- most overripe,
- dis solute,
- un healthy,
- de cadent,
- retro-grade,
- un-healthier,
- most degenerated,
- un-healthy,
- dis-solute,
- de-generate,
- un healthier,
- un healthiest,
- more degenerated,
- most flatitious,
- de based,
- most vitiated,
- in-famous,
- retro grade,
- over ripe.
- lame,
- impotent,
- sapless,
- wimpy,
- fainter,
- out of gas,
- enervated,
- Strengthless,
- inefficient,
- helpless.
- in aptest,
- un qualified,
- junker,
- un equal,
- un-equal,
- junkest,
- most lemon,
- in-aptest,
- in apter,
- incapable,
- in adequate,
- in-adequate,
- most niggardly,
- more niggardly,
- more stinted,
- glitcher,
- in-commensurate,
- most stinted,
- in commensurate,
- in-complete,
- glitchest,
- in appreciable,
- in considerable,
- un-qualified,
- in-capable,
- bushleague,
- inconsiderable,
- in complete,
- incomplete,
- in-appreciable,
- in-apter,
- in-considerable,
- more lemon,
- too little,
- in capable.
- in-secure,
- in firmest,
- un sounder,
- in-securer,
- most sensile,
- in-firmer,
- un-sound,
- un-substantial,
- un-stable,
- in firmer,
- in securer,
- un stable,
- in-securest,
- un-sounder,
- un substantial,
- most faltering,
- un-stabler,
- more anile,
- un-soundest,
- un stablest,
- in-firm,
- in securest,
- un sound,
- in-firmest,
- more faltering,
- un-stablest,
- most anile,
- more sensile,
- un stabler,
- in secure.
- shy,
- scant,
- vain,
- wanting,
- unavailing,
- unprosperous,
- defeated,
- Unthriving,
- short,
- deficient.
n.
•Achilles heel (noun)-
•
- infectious,
- ill,
- sick.
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•
- on your deathbed,
- someone's number is up,
- someone's/something's days are numbered,
- on your last legs,
- not long for this world,
- at death's door.
- chink armor,
- under belly,
- under bellies,
- under-bellies,
- under-belly,
- chink one armor,
- weak sides,
- chink in one armor,
- chink in ones armor,
- chink-armor,
- vulnerable places,
- chink ones armor,
- chink one's armor.
- de generation,
- dis solution,
- de cay,
- dis solutions,
- dyings,
- de cadences,
- de-compositions,
- de-composition,
- de crease,
- de-cadence,
- de creases,
- de cadence,
- dis-solutions,
- dis-repair,
- rottings,
- de-creases,
- crumblings,
- de composition,
- de generations,
- dis repair,
- dis-integrations,
- dis-solution,
- perishings,
- dis-repairs,
- dis integrations,
- de-generation,
- de cays,
- de compositions,
- dis integration,
- fadings,
- wastings,
- dis repairs,
- de-crease,
- de-cadences,
- de-cays,
- dis-integration,
- spoilations,
- de-cay,
- wasting aways,
- de-generations.
- de-scent,
- de scents,
- dwindlings,
- de volutions,
- weakenings,
- falling offs,
- re cessions,
- re-lapse,
- re-lapses,
- re lapse,
- re-cessions,
- on the skid,
- de clines,
- de-volutions,
- de-cline,
- devolutions,
- worsenings,
- re cession,
- de cline,
- on skids,
- re lapses,
- re-cession,
- on skid,
- de scent,
- de volution,
- de-volution,
- de-clines,
- de-scents.
- dis coloration,
- dis-coloration,
- dis colorations,
- dis-colorations,
- in juries,
- marrings,
- rough spots,
- in jury,
- in-jury,
- mis-take,
- mis-takes,
- mis takes,
- mis take.
- dis affection,
- dis-loyalty,
- re volt,
- dis-affection,
- re-volt,
- re treats,
- re-treats,
- re-volts,
- forsakings,
- sunderings,
- disownments,
- re-treat,
- dis-affections,
- dis loyalty,
- dis affections,
- dis-loyalties,
- re volts,
- dis loyalties.
- de-fault,
- de merit,
- de merits,
- in-sufficiencies,
- inability hack it,
- in-sufficiency,
- in sufficiencies,
- insufficiences,
- in sufficiency,
- de-merit,
- de fault,
- de faults,
- de-merits,
- de-faults.
- dis advantages,
- de-privations,
- in-conveniences,
- in conveniences,
- blockings,
- de privation,
- in utility,
- in convenience,
- fly in ointment,
- de privations,
- de-privation,
- dis commodity,
- in-utilities,
- dis commodities,
- dis-commodities,
- in utilities,
- fly ointment,
- dis-advantage,
- in-utility,
- adverse circumstance,
- dis-advantages,
- dis advantage,
- dis-commodity,
- fly the ointment,
- in-convenience.
- lemon,
- washout,
- lead balloon,
- sinking ship,
- non-success,
- faux pas,
- nonperformance,
- nonsuccess,
- implosion,
- fiasco,
- loser,
- unsuccessfulness,
- Unsuccess,
- nonfeasance,
- total loss,
- Non-performance,
- insolvency.
- in-discretions,
- in discretions,
- mis deed,
- in discretion,
- in-discretion,
- in accuracies,
- in accuracy,
- mis cue,
- in-accuracies,
- answerabilities,
- mis-cues,
- mis-deed,
- mis demeanor,
- mis-deeds,
- mis-demeanor,
- over sight,
- mis cues,
- slip ups,
- in-accuracy,
- mis-conduct,
- mis conduct,
- mis-conducts,
- loss innocence,
- over sights,
- evil doings,
- mis-demeanors,
- mis deeds,
- mis-cue,
- over-sight,
- mis conducts,
- mis demeanors,
- over-sights.
- self-condemnation,
- malefactions,
- self-reproach,
- sinfulness,
- criminalities,
- Malefaction,
- criminality,
- blameworthiness.
- in effectualnesses,
- in-capacity,
- skimpinesses,
- in-competences,
- un-fitness,
- in-efficiency,
- un suitablenesses,
- in effectivenesses,
- un-fitnesses,
- in-adequacies,
- in efficacies,
- in-aptness,
- inaptnesses,
- in effectiveness,
- inadequatenesses,
- in efficacy,
- in-adequacy,
- faultinesses,
- in capacity,
- in-adequatenesses,
- in-competence,
- in adequatenesses,
- un fitnesses,
- un-suitableness,
- in-capacities,
- un-suitablenesses,
- in-effectiveness,
- in-efficacy,
- un suitableness,
- in capacities,
- in-efficiencies,
- in-competency,
- in-effectivenesses,
- in-effectualness,
- in adequacy,
- in adequacies,
- defectivenesses,
- in competency,
- in-competencies,
- in aptness,
- in adequateness,
- in competence,
- in effectualness,
- in-adequateness,
- un fitness,
- in-efficacies,
- in efficiency,
- in-aptnesses,
- in competencies,
- in-effectualnesses,
- in efficiencies,
- in competences,
- in aptnesses.
- diseasednesses,
- dis-ease,
- in-dispositions,
- dis orders,
- dis-orders,
- dis eases,
- dis order,
- in dispositions,
- dis-eases,
- ailings,
- un wellnesses,
- un-health,
- un health,
- un-healthiness,
- un-healthinesses,
- un-wellness,
- in-disposition,
- unwellnesses,
- dis-order,
- un healthinesses,
- ill healths,
- un healths,
- flus,
- un-wellnesses,
- dis ease,
- un-healths,
- sicklinesses,
- un wellness,
- unhealthinesses,
- in disposition,
- un healthiness,
- unhealths.
- in advertencies,
- over-looks,
- in-advertences,
- excludings,
- in advertences,
- pretermissions,
- noninclusions,
- dis regards,
- non inclusion,
- in advertence,
- non-inclusions,
- disregardances,
- dis-regard,
- dis-regards,
- leaving outs,
- over looking,
- non inclusions,
- over-look,
- in advertency,
- with holdings,
- dis regard,
- preteritions,
- with-holdings,
- over look,
- with-holding,
- in-advertence,
- ignorings,
- slightings,
- with holding,
- in-advertency,
- over looks,
- cutting outs,
- over-looking,
- in-advertencies,
- passing overs,
- overlookings.
v.
•failing (verb) •neglecting (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- smitten,
- frail,
- leaden,
- worse,
- shaky,
- unsteady,
- drained,
- indisposed,
- unfit,
- diseased,
- incapacitated,
- goner,
- Achilles' Heel,
- homebound,
- Thru,
- woozy,
- barring,
- undernourished,
- senile,
- dying,
- weak point,
- Onto,
- wretched,
- Upon,
- damage,
- Among,
- ailing,
- disordered,
- underside,
- shivery,
- housebound,
- Amid,
- unhealthy,
- blah,
- pending,
- stricken,
- abnormality,
- Qua,
- With,
- Unto,
- Sickened,
- groggy,
- lightheaded,
- From,
- Toward,
- Against,
- Into,
- preposition,
- bedridden,
- aging.
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•
- disgusted,
- fragile,
- shocked,
- wobbly,
- sickly,
- aboard,
- feverish,
- languid,
- delirious,
- at,
- fatally,
- poverty,
- giddy,
- fevered,
- Of,
- prep,
- disadvantage.
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•
- dizzy,
- limitation,
- contagious,
- rough.
-
•
- dead.
-
•
- down.
- falling off,
- scarcity,
- deceive,
- short coming,
- immature,
- in want of,
- Non-fulfilment,
- transgression,
- glitch,
- abortion,
- before,
- run-down,
- disgrace,
- peaked,
- downtrend,
- kink,
- inattentiveness,
- forgetfulness,
- inattention,
- bug,
- fallibility,
- disfigurement,
- debasement,
- lacking,
- arrested,
- feebleness,
- Valetudinary,
- infant,
- diminishing,
- misbehavior,
- falling to pieces,
- flagging,
- weak spot,
- inactivity,
- operating,
- rickety,
- goof,
- stillborn,
- be defeated,
- tumbledown,
- trick,
- incongruity,
- involution,
- staging,
- derelict,
- mismanagement,
- liability,
- sinking,
- per,
- malpractice,
- dilapidated,
- depreciation,
- unprepared,
- passiveness,
- senescent,
- scrappy,
- Separating,
- Discontinuing,
- aborting,
- impotence,
- inoperative,
- come to grief,
- delinquent,
- eject,
- wane,
- aggravate,
- slump,
- remissness,
- retrogression,
- weakened,
- in danger,
- cheating,
- flunk,
- oversight,
- imparting,
- lasting,
- bootless,
- dropping,
- Desisting,
- fragmenting,
- Excluding,
- abating,
- regression,
- Retrocession,
- twist,
- snag,
- departing,
- imperfectness,
- futile,
- erring,
- analysing,
- frustration,
- parting,
- oscitancy,
- part,
- ebb,
- unsturdy,
- doddering,
- Ceasing,
- in short supply,
- helplessness,
- rifling,
- Bombarding,
- subsiding,
- want,
- blot,
- breaking up,
- Defeating,
- Denouncing,
- in trouble,
- in extremis,
- Escaping,
- downfall,
- miss,
- quirk,
- cuckolding,
- uncompleted,
- useless,
- corrupting,
- miscarry,
- indiscretion,
- disregard,
- living,
- Exposing,
- decadency,
- Distributing,
- fluff,
- eccentricity,
- hollow,
- unshaken,
- defeat,
- Languishing,
- draining,
- in arrears,
- meager,
- Defaulting,
- limping,
- weakening,
- coming apart,
- leg,
- short memory,
- catch,
- exhausted,
- drooping,
- hang-up,
- rift,
- recrudescing,
- fall through,
- falling apart,
- cracking,
- Palling,
- atrophy,
- crumple up,
- Muffing,
- powerlessness,
- bad habit,
- degradation,
- enfeebled,
- decadent,
- disease,
- Deceasing,
- laxity,
- diminution,
- proceeding,
- defective,
- bettering,
- capital crime,
- preoccupation,
- dilapidation,
- terminate,
- lack,
- worsen,
- at fault,
- Bumping,
- doting,
- decadence,
- crude,
- declination,
- except for,
- Shriveling,
- Analyzing,
- insufficiency,
- Bolting,
- check,
- going,
- break,
- loss,
- misconduct,
- Checking,
- unfinished,
- fragility,
- destroy,
- bungling,
- passivity,
- mistake,
- crippled,
- Half-dead,
- ending,
- degeneracy,
- blunder,
- die,
- mark,
- sliding,
- drop,
- Declaring,
- unconcern,
- slipping,
- delictum,
- default,
- Abandoning,
- fall down,
- unsubstantiality,
- negligent,
- Successless,
- setting aside,
- declension,
- misdeed,
- Without,
- emitting,
- go under,
- relegating,
- sin,
- in one's dotage,
- in poor health,
- exclusive of,
- breathing one's last,
- unfortunate,
- Retrogradation,
- debilitated,
- unequal to,
- callow,
- wilting,
- shortfall,
- unqualified,
- Miscarrying,
- disintegration,
- rating,
- indulgence,
- Marcescent,
- taint,
- Breaching,
- exiting,
- apart from,
- Feeble-minded,
- deteriorate,
- Depravedness,
- neglect,
- valetudinarian,
- Depravation,
- break down,
- surviving,
- starting,
- remiss,
- be lacking,
- collapse,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- slipping away,
- crotchet,
- shabby,
- Slumping,
- demotion,
- descent,
- hypoplastic,
- effeteness,
- fade,
- slippage,
- simple,
- Misdoing,
- go broke,
- neglectful,
- belonging,
- Extending,
- heedlessness,
- peculiarity,
- decrease,
- decrepit,
- Pausing,
- debility,
- Damping,
- expiring,
- imperfect,
- withering,
- lapse of memory,
- blending,
- neglectfulness,
- Dissecting,
- plumping,
- Needing,
- partial,
- derogation,
- shopping,
- snitching,
- Healthless,
- fizzle out,
- dwindling,
- incompetence,
- worsening,
- Excepting,
- of no effect,
- indifference,
- comedown,
- inefficacious,
- slip,
- travelling,
- developing,
- bad break,
- Fracturing,
- ineffectual,
- inaction,
- Divulging,
- Precluding,
- idiosyncrasy,
- oddity,
- ramshackle,
- Shipwrecking,
- embryonic,
- Disintegrating,
- sounding,
- traveling,
- downturn,
- dotty,
- sketchy,
- in default of,
- oscitance,
- Miscarried,
- foundering,
- erupting,
- unsound,
- wasting,
- Demoting,
- disclosing,
- deformation,
- Interrupting,
- inadvertence,
- irregularity,
- incompetent,
- pining,
- fruitless,
- demerit,
- happening,
- peccadillo,
- missing,
- delinquency,
- degeneration,
- negligence,
- perfunctory,
- reduced,
- undeveloped,
- underdeveloped,
- Tabetic,
- Sans,
- Eliminating,
- get lost,
- slackness,
- carelessness,
- expel,
- crashing,
- decomposing,
- Discovering,
- crushing,
- patchy,
- go bust,
- wandering,
- Crumbling,
- stain,
- loophole,
- frustrate,
- Terminating,
- dampening,
- besetting sin,
- bombing,
- blemish,
- cloven foot,
- pale,
- faute,
- achilles heel,
- Decaying,
- Bankrupting,
- enduring,
- betraying,
- hole,
- cachectic,
- moving,
- lapsus,
- Omitting,
- revealing,
- laxness,
- on one's deathbed,
- cancel,
- Deserting,
- negate,
- manque,
- abort,
- invalid,
- functioning,
- peaky,
- forsake,
- lose,
- disappoint,
- bankruptcy,
- forgetful,
- Crumpling,
- ebbing,
- wasted,
- dereliction,
- offending,
- violate,
- come to naught,
- crack,
- fail,
- worse for wear,
- insufficiently,
- effete,
- trip,
- backfiring,
- fading,
- tripping,
- breakdown,
- trip up,
- problem,
- nullify,
- Botching,
- fall,
- cease,
- fall short of,
- in arrear,
- be missing,
- moribund,
- reduced in health,
- inconsistency,
- Stickit,
- Degenerateness,
- broken-down,
- Deceiving,
- fizzle.
Paraphrases for Failing:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
weakness.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, plural
failures.
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Noun, plural
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Independent
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Adjective
failed.
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Proper noun, singular
failed.
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Noun, plural
shortcomings, mistakes, setbacks.
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Noun, singular or mass
shortcoming, lack, failed, mistake, inability, absence, default, shortage, malfunction.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
ailing, falling, Fulfilling, faltering, deteriorating, disregarding, Collapsing, Ignoring, Ceasing, Violating, leaving, succeeding, disappointing, troubleshooting, nonconforming, waiting, lacking, Defaulting, lost, Refraining, Refusing, absent, complaining, Contravening, Excluding, Achieving, Avoiding, declining, Deviating, Blaming, Delaying, differing, Adjudicating, Jeopardizing, Defeating, Neglecting, complying, Crumbling, Infringing, accepting, Endangering, concealing, decreasing, Disrupting, Abstaining, except, lagging, assigning, suffering, overlooking, jeopardising, yielding, Forgetting, happening, killing, Rejecting, betraying, undermining, dwindling, Allowing, Transferring, hiding, fucking, Deceiving, compromising, challenging, struggling, Evading, Disputing, Claiming, averting, Discharging, Renouncing, Disposing, Educating, Nor, rendering, Preventing, offending, Skipping, pending, exceeding, crashing, stinking, dropping, Denying, Flunking, reneging, playing, lowering, countering, Awaiting, opposing, varying, Contesting, wasting, Throwing, letting, Objecting, honouring, moving, Respecting, barring, questioning, Placing, sagging, spreading, paying, turning, serving, wrecking, cases, Noting, setting, shooting, freeing, hurting, causing, Having, putting, keeping, wanting, going, shortcoming, Doing, heading, getting, She, making.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Noun, plural
errors.
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Noun, plural
Antonyms for Failing:
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adj.
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not well, weak
adequate, enough, sufficient, thriving, rebounding, ok, well, healthy, strong.
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not well, weak
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n.
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lapse, shortcoming
advantage, strong point, perfection, strength, benefit.
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Other antonyms:
excellence, integrity, goodness, merit, morality, probity, virtue, pass, passing, righteousness, satisfactory, rectitude, qualifying.
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lapse, shortcoming
Homophones for Failing:
- filming, flunk, feelings, flunkey, fueling, feeling, fleming, flank, filling, flaming, film-make, feebleness, foulness, flying gecko, Fooling, flimsy, falling, fhlmc, flamenco, fluency, flying, following, Flense, foiling, flowing, flinch, felonious, filing, flounce, fullness, falange, flummox, flemish, flamingo, flange, flunky, FLNC, flaminius, falanga, fling.
Hypernym for Failing:
n.
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state
flaw, inadequacy, fatigue, insufficiency.
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state
Hyponym for Failing:
n.
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state
imperfection, imperfectness.
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state