Failing

Definitions: Failing

Failing

Adjective

1. Unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture".

2. Below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades".

3. Going from better to worse.

Noun

1. A flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings".

2. Failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "failing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Failing

Dejection

Phrase: the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking within one; "a plague of sighing and grief"; " thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred".

Failure

Adjective: unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping;Verb: at fault; unfortunate.

Fear

Phrase: ante tubam trepidat; horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit.

Guilt

Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum.

Incompleteness

Adjective: incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; (see complete; ); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude; (unprepared).

Insufficiency

Adverb: insufficiently; Adjective:; in default of, for want of; failing.

Oblivion

Short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory; waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion.

Phrase: non mi ricordo; the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at (or in) fault.

Vice

Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.

Crosswords: Failing

My father is a noble man, but his rule is failing, and our people lose faith. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Only I could fail at failing. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

But in the failing light, they can't focus. (Reign of Fire; writing credit: Damon Packard)

Just another case of a geek trying to imitate the popular people and failing miserably. (Heathers; writing credit: Daniel Waters)

Ross won't shoot you for failing once -- it's not democratic! (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones)

I'm so thrilled to finally be failing ("Falling For The First Time"; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

The Failing of Raymond (1971)

Kelly the Coed 4: Failing Grades (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Empowering Underachievers : How to Guide Failing Kids (8-18) to Personal Excellence (reference)

• Failing Boys?: Issues in Gender and Achievement (reference)

• Oh, the Things I Know! A Guide to Success, or, Failing That, Happiness (reference)

• The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education (reference)

• The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• UnEqual Education : Failing Our Children (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Failing Early, Failing Often (reference)

• Power of Failing (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In the event of any Member failing to take the action required by Article 405, with regard to a recommendation or draft Convention, any other Member shall be entitled to refer the matter to the Permanent Court of International Justice. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I know he would be hurt by my failing in such a mark of respect to him on the present occasion.

Now I propose to disprove his general law by simply giving one instance of its failing.

When he saw that this slender resource was failing him, he renounced his garden and left it uncultivated.

And the glimmering souls passed away, sustained and failing, merged in a moving breath.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The reasons for failing to meet the criteria should be specified. (references)

Blood tests show whether the kidneys are failing to remove wastes. (references)

In studies on animals, researchers have begun inserting healthy muscle cells into a failing heart to replace damaged cells. (references)

Business

Despite these assets, CADAFE is failing to keep pace with electrical demands placed upon the system, particularly in southwestern Venezuela. (references)

The Directive groups IVDs into four categories according to the risks associated with relative dangers to public health and/or patient treatment by an IVD failing to perform as intended. (references)

However, over the last few years there have been signs that E&T institutions in Vietnam are failing to keep pace. They are being overwhelmed by the sheer number of students and workers in need of services and struggling to adapt both facilities and curriculum to the rapidly changing demands of an economy in transition and a workforce playing "catch-up" in one of the world's most competitive regions. (references)

Children

Switzerland

Social and youth protection services were also under scrutiny for failing to check on the child's whereabouts and for not confirming that someone was taking care of her. (references)

South Africa

During the year, an activist group called Treatment Action Campaign sued the Government in court for failing to provide drugs which reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. (references)

Taiwan

Organizations failing to do so must pay, for each person with disabilities not hired, the basic monthly salary (approximately $570 (NT$18,880)) into the Disabled Welfare Fund, which supports institutions involved in welfare for persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Seychelles

In 2000 the Government had sued Regar's editor and publisher for contempt for failing to turn over a letter. (references)

Ukraine

The SBU searched Yeltsov's home and questioned him for allegedly failing to hand over sensitive state documents. (references)

Egypt

Failing a quorum, a second election must be held in which at least 30 percent of the membership votes for the board. (references)

Economic History

Zambia

Failing that, the parties may go to international arbitration, which the state recognizes to be binding. (references)

Algeria

Failing infrastructure and the continued influx of people from rural to urban areas has overtaxed both systems. (references)

Bahrain

Companies failing to meet their targets also may have problems with work permits and visas for expatriate staff members. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

The Inspector General's office continued to investigate possible government negligence in failing to prevent the killing. (references)

Malaysia

Others accused the Commission of refusing to take on serious issues and failing to assert its legal authority at critical times. (references)

Gambia

On October 30, soldiers shot and killed Hussein Wasni, a Lebanese visitor, at a checkpoint on the Kombo Coastal Road for failing to stop his vehicle. (references)

Indigenous People

Angola

Associacion Leonardo Sikufinde-Shalom Angola (ALASSA), a Catholic organization that advocates for indigenous people's rights, criticized the Government for providing plots that were too small and for failing to include persons most affected in government planning; the case continued at year's end. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

Many ethnic Nepalese also were forced to sign "voluntary migration forms" wherein they agreed to leave the country, after local officials threatened to fine or imprison them for failing to comply. (references)

Mexico

In two Chiapas communities, Protestant evangelicals reportedly were detained by community members for failing to make financial donations in support of the syncretistic Catholic celebration of Santa Cruz. (references)

Political Economy

GUATEMALA

Many coffee plantations also violate labor rights, particularly by often failing to pay workers the national minimum wage. (references)

Colombia

In her annual report to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Ms. Robinson criticized the Government for failing to fight the paramilitaries. (references)

Guatemala

In November the PDH censured both the President and the Vice President for failing to promote policies of economic development to prevent such a disaster. (references)

Political Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The EASC specifically censured SDA and HDZ officials for underreporting or failing to report some campaign expenses and contributions. (references)

Ukraine

After the first round of voting, three regional administrators were dismissed, allegedly for failing to produce sufficient votes for President Kuchma in their districts. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In February and March, the OSCE remove six municipal councilors for either failing to vacate property they illegally occupied or for holding two incompatible government positions. (references)

Trade

Guatemala

This said, the government's Monetary Board has recently intervened in three failing banks. (references)

Romania

An Asset Resolution Agency was created, and assumed responsibility for non-performing loans, initially from Bancorex, and later for other state-owned banks: Agricultural Bank and BCR. In the private banking sector, the NBR intervened in failing bank International Bank of Religions (BIR), that was eventually closed, while Turkish-Romanian Bank (BTR) is under National Bank's special supervision and special settlement regime. (references)

Jamaica

In January 1997, facing a sector-wide disaster, the government established a temporary agency, the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) to supervise the recovery and restructuring of failing financial institutions, coordinate interventions of various agencies (specifically the Bank of Jamaica and the Superintendent of Insurance) and address the weakness in financial management and strengthening the supervision of the sector. (references)

Women

Nepal

On September 11, two men, including a local village official, were jailed in Simardahi, Mahottari District, after failing to post bond for charges relating to the August 14 beating of an elderly woman after publicly denouncing her as a witch. (references)

Austria

To remedy this circumstance, the law requires hiring women of equivalent qualifications ahead of men in civil service areas in which less than 40 percent of the employees are women; however, there are no penalties for failing to attain the 40 percent target. (references)

Indonesia

Many groups criticized the Manpower Law for failing to address sexual harassment and violence against women in the workplace and for providing inadequate protection in areas of employment in which women regularly suffer abuse, such as overseas employment and household service. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

However, no one has been charged for failing to register since the 1997 labor law revision. (references)

Tanzania

The law permits the imposition of large fines, imprisonment, or both for failing to register a trade union. (references)

Morocco

Labor disputes have arisen in some cases as the result of employers failing to implement collective bargaining agreements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "failing": failing mark ♦ failing this ♦ never failing ♦ one's heart failing one ♦ the memory failing. Additional references.

Ending with "failing": never-failing.

Albanian

që mungon (absent, missing, wanting), që dobësohet, në rast se kjo nuk ndodh, në mungesë të (in default of), mungësi, e metë (blemish, defect, deficit, demerit, disfigurement, fault, feebleness, flaw, handicap, limitations, shortcoming, weakness), dobësi (adynamia, anaemia, anemia, debility, delicacy, disease, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, infirmity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, leanness, limpness, malady, marasmus, reaction, sinking, tabescence, tenuity, vulnerability, washiness, weakness), defekt (blowing, defect, fault, handicap, hole), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في حال عدم حدوث كذا, ‏فاشل (fruitless, futile, good for nothing, unstuck, unsuccessful, washed up), ‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏تغيب (absent oneself), ‏عيب (blemish, blot, blotch, deformity, demerit, disgrace, fault, flaw, imperfection, infirmity, shortcoming, stain, vice, want), ‏ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ‏خلل (acetify, blemish, defect, deficiency, disorder, fault, flaw, imperfection, pickle, preserve, souse, trouble), ‏خائب (futile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабост (asthenia, crack, debility, demerit, fancy, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, infirmity, insufficiency, leanness, partiality, poorness, shortcoming, tenderness, tenuity, weakness), слабо място (foible), слабеещ, слаба страна, в случай че не, отслабващ (remissive), отпадащ (flagging), недостатък (blemish, debit, defect, deficiency, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, kink, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness), недостигащ (short, wanting), ако не (except, unless), липсващ (absent, lacking, missing). (various references)

Chinese 

弱點 (weak point), 失败 (Abortive, Defeat, defeatist, Fail, Failed, failure, Miscarried, miscarry, Miscarrying). (various references)

Czech

vada (altercation, blemish, defect, fault, hole, imperfection, inadequacy, vice), upadající, slabina (demerit, flank, groin, vice, weakness), skomíravý (dying), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want), klesající (declinatory, declining, decreasing, descending, sloping), chyba (defect, errata, error, fault, inadequacy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up). (various references)

Danish

maksimalbelastning (breaking load, failing load), ikke stille dokumenter og bøger til rådighed ved kontrol (failing to make documents available for inspection), ikke føre de foreskrevne bøger (failing to keep proper records), i mangel heraf (failing this, in the absence thereof), hvis der ikke opnaas enstemmighed... (failing unanimity...), gennembrydning af et dige (breaking of a dike, breaking of a dyke, breaking of an embankment, failin of a dike, failing of a dyke, failing of an embankment), brudbelastning (breaking load, buckling load, collapse load, failing load). (various references)

Dutch

met getijden stijgende en dalende cel (rising and failing compartment, tidal tank), maximale belasting (breaking load, failing load, maximum power produced), indeplaatsstelling van een erfgenaam (appointment of heir in succession to another or failing another), het weigeren stukken en bescheiden ter beschikking van de inspectie te stellen (failing to make documents available for inspection), het niet bijhouden van een juiste boekhouding (failing to keep proper records), doorbreken van een dijk (breaking of a dike, breaking of a dyke, breaking of an embankment, failin of a dike, failing of a dyke, failing of an embankment), dijkdoorbraak (breaking of a dike, breaking of a dyke, breaking of an embankment, failin of a dike, failing of a dyke, failing of an embankment), dijkbreuk (breaking of a dike, breaking of a dyke, breaking of an embankment, failin of a dike, failing of a dyke, failing of an embankment), breken van een dijk (breaking of a dike, breaking of a dyke, breaking of an embankment, failin of a dike, failing of a dyke, failing of an embankment), bij gebreke van dien (failing this, in the absence thereof), bij gebreke daarvan (failing this, in the absence thereof), bij gebrek aan eenstemmigheid... (failing unanimity...). (various references)

Finnish

puute (defect, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, impairment, lack, shortage, shortcoming, want), horjuva (tottering, uncertain, undecided, unstable, unsteady, wavering), heikkous (faintness, feebleness, foible, frailty, impairment, infirmity, weak point, weakness), heikko puoli (disadvantage, drawback, shortcoming, weak point). (various references)

French

faiblesse, faible (failure, faint), mauvais (faulty), manques, défaut (failure, fault), défaillant (faint, fainting), défaillance (failure, fainting), � défaut de. (various references)

German

scheiternd (miscarrying), fehlerhafte (erroneous, faulty, flawy, offending), durchfallend (flopping, flunking). (various references)

Greek 

ελάττωμα (blemish, defect, deficiency, fault, flaw, imperfection, malfunction, seam, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), אכזב (deceptive, disappointing, unreliable), כשל (failure, lapse, slip), �"כשלות (failure), �"כשל�" (causing failure). (various references)

Hungarian

hiányában (in absence of, in default of, wanting). (various references)

Italian

fallimento (abortion, bankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, crackup, defeat, failure, fiasco, miscarriage, smashup, washout), vacillante (flickering, shaky, unsteady), scarso (jejune, low, meager, meagre, penurious, poor, scant, scantily, scanty, scarce, skimpily, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparse, thin, tight, weak), mancanza (absence, default, defect, deficiency, empty cells, fail patch, failed patch, failure, fault, lack, Lacuna, lag, lapse, misses, shortage, shortcoming, want), in mancanza di, debolezza (debility, enervation, faintness, feebleness, infirmity, market, market dullness, market flatness, market slackness, market sluggishness, poorness, thinness, weakness), debole (dim, faint, feeble, feebleminded, flimsy, frail, gone, helpless, impotent, infirm, light, nerveless, pale, powerless, strengthless, tenuous, thin, unsound, weak, weak point, weakly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

聞き落し (failing to catch, mishearing), 落球 (failing to catch a ball, fumble), 落第点 (failing grade), �'立ち (failing to ripen or blossom), 見違い (failing to recognize, mistaking for), ダフ屋 (double, double-breasted, double-count, dowel, dumb, dummy, French cuffs, scalper, to coincide, to have two of something, to repeat a school year after failing), 掛け捨て (failing to honor an installment payment), 未届け (failing to report), 本末転�' (failing to properly evaluate theimportance, mistaking the cause for the end, mistaking the insignificant for the essential, putting the cart before the horse), 本末顛�' (failing to properly evaluate theimportance, mistaking the cause for the end, mistaking the insignificant for the essential, putting the cart before the horse), 健康不安 (failing heath, poor health), 一浪 (failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ダブる (to coincide, to have two of something, to repeat a school year after failing), ききおとし (failing to catch, mishearing), ほ�"まつて�"とう (failing to properly evaluate theimportance, mistaking the cause for the end, mistaking the insignificant for the essential, putting the cart before the horse), かけずて (failing to honor an installment payment), いちろう (failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later), あお� ち (failing to ripen or blossom), らく� いて�" (failing grade), らっきゅう (failing to catch a ball, fumble), け�"�"うふあ�" (failing heath, poor health), みとどけ (failing to report), みちがい (failing to recognize, mistaking for). (various references)

Korean 

실패 (Fail, failure). (various references)

Manx

shymley (consume, decline, droop, languish, languishing, pine, pining), failleilagh (deficient, fallible). (various references)

Pig Latin

ailingfay.(various references)

Portuguese

fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble minded, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk and water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy washy), família desunida (broken home), falta (absence, attenuation, default, defect, deficiency, degrade, empty cells, fade, fail, failure, fault, flaw, forfeit, foul, guilt, lack, Lacuna, lag, misconduct, miss, misses, mistake, need, non attendance, omission, paucity, penurity, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, slip, want, Wantage), se (each other, himself, if, in case that, itself, ivied, Kingdom of Sweden, oneself, provided that, should, so, supposing, Sweden, themselves, whether, yourself), salvo (barring, besides, salvaged, save, saving, with the exception of), imperfeição (abnormality, acerbity, defect, degrade, fault, flaw, imperfection, inadequate, lameness, roughness, shortcoming), enfraquecimento (abatement, attenuation, decay, decline, deterioration, down grade, enervation, extenuation, fading, fair, impale, labefaction, loss, run out), deficiência (badness, brack, defect, deficiency, deficit, degrade, disability, disturbance, fault, flaw, handicap, impairment, liable, malformation, perturbation, shortcoming, vice, want), defeito (aberration, abuse, blemish, blister, blot, bug, defect, defect in wood, deficiency, degrade, error, fault, flaw, frailty, imperfection, malformed, mistake, shortcoming, taint, vice, weakness). (various references)

Romanian

slãbire (abatement, atrophy, attenuation, decay, dilution, emasculation, enervation, fading, failure, labefaction, looseness, maceration, slendering, stringency, weakening), slãbiciune (debility, decrepitude, defect, droop, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, infirmity, languor, leanness, liking, propensity, shortcoming, tenuity, weakness), nereuşitã (break down, fail, failure, lame duck, miscarriage, Miss, naught, phlizz, rottenness), manie (crank, craze, fad, foible, hobby, mania, monomania), greşealã (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blunder, defect, drawback, error, fault, flaw, lapse, miscarriage, mistake, rub, shortcoming, sin, slip, trespass, wrong), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, set back, wash out), descreştere (abatement, decrease, diminution, retreat), defect (defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, infelicity, lame, shortcoming, ulcer, vice, want, weakness), cusur (blemish, defect, drawback, fault, flaw, foible, shortcoming, vice, weakness), în lipsa, în absenţã. (various references)

Russian 

слабость (adynamia, asthenia, debilitation, debility, enervation, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, foible, fragility, infirmity, languor, limpness, looseness, washiness, weakness, wilt), слабеющий (fainting), ввиду отсутствия, ошибка (aberration, bungle, bust, error, fallacy, fault, faux pas, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, slip, slip up, slipup, slip-up, stumble, trip), неуспех, неудача (abortion, adverseness, bad, bad luck, crab, down, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, hard luck, hoodoo, ill fortune, ill success, ill-luck, mischance, misfortune, mishap, no go, rebuff, reverse, rot, setback, washout), недостающий (lacking, missing, wanting), недостаток (blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, disadvantage, drawback, failure, fault, flaw, lack, letdown, minus, objection, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vice, want), за неимением (for lack of, for want of, in default of), провал (failure, fiasco, frost, plough, plow, pluck, rot). (various references)

Scottish

f� illinn (a failing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neprelazan (intransitive, noncontagious), neizvršenje (fail), nedovoljno (insufficiently, underwork, unsatisfactorily), nedovoljan (insufficient, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, wanting), nedostatak (blemish, defect, defiance, deficiency, demerit, failure, fault, imperfection, lack, minus, shortage, want), mana (blemish, defect, drawback, fault, flaw, foible, imperfection, manna, mar, shortcoming). (various references)

Spanish

flaqueza (frailty, infirmity, market, market dullness, market flatness, market slackness, market sluggishness, thinness), falta (absence, bankruptcy, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, empty cells, error, fade, fail, failure, fault, foul, infringement, is lacking, lack, lag, lapse, literal mistake, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misprint, misses, mistake, need, out of, paucity, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, silence, slip, want), defecto (batter, blemish, damage, default, defect, deficiency, degrade, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, inferiority, shortcoming), defectamente, a falta de (in default of, in the absence of). (various references)

Swedish

fel (aberration, Amiss, blemish, breakdown, corrigendum, defect, deficiency, demerit, error, errors, failure, fault, flaw, foul, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, nonconformity, out, shortcoming, trouble, vice, wrong), i brist på (for lack of, in default of), brist (absence, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, desideratum, destitution, disadvantage, failure, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, need, poverty, scarcity, scarity, shortage, shortcoming, short-fall, want, warp). (various references)

Thai

ความผิ�", ความล้มเหลว (catastrophe, collapse, failure, falling, flop, naught). (various references)

Turkish

zayıflık (caducity, debility, delicacy, diathesis, faintness, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, lameness, leanness, puniness, slimness, spareness, thinness, weakness), zaaf (achilles heel, disability, foible, frailty, infirmity, lameness, vice, weakness), yokluğunda (in the absence of), yanılan, olmazsa (barring, except, failing this, nisi, unless), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, failure, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void), şaşan, ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame), aksayan (halting, palsied). (various references)

Ukranian 

невдача (abortion, bad, baffle, defection, down, fail, flop, ill luck, infelicity, miscarriage, mischance, mishap, no go, setback), недолік (blemish, defect, deficiency, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, imperfection, infirmity, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle), за відсутністю, помилка (aberration, balk, bloomer, bungle, delusion, error, fallacy, fault, inaccuracy, lapsus, misdeed, mistake, sin, slip, solecism, stumble, trip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự suy yếu sự thất bại, sự phá sản sự trượt, sự đánh trượt thiếu sót, nhược điểm (blemish, defect, frailty, shortcoming). (various references)

Welsh

ffaeledd (defect, fault), pall (fail, lack, lapse, mantle, tent), methiannus (decayed), coll (defect, loss). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "failing": failingly, failings. (additional references)

Words ending with "failing": unfailing. (additional references)

Words containing "failing": unfailingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Failing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: failling, faiting, faling, falsing, faylyng, Fehling, Feiling, frailing, frauline. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ailing, filing, finial, nilgai.

-2 letters: algin, align, fagin, final, fling, liang, ligan, linga.

-3 letters: agin, alif, anil, fail, fain, fang, fila, flag, flan, gain, glia, ilia, inia, lain, lang, ling, naif, nail.

-4 letters: ail, ain, ani, fag, fan, fig, fil, fin, gal, gan, gin, lag, lin, nag, nil.

-5 letters: ag, ai, al, an, fa, if, in, la, li, na.

+1 letter: failings, flailing.

+2 letters: failingly, filiating, finagling, foliating, infalling, inflaming, inflating, salifying, unfailing.

+3 letters: afflicting, airlifting, amplifying, calcifying, clarifying, coalifying, defilading, enfilading, falsifying, filmmaking, filtrating, finalising, finalizing, fingernail, flatlining, focalising, focalizing, fungicidal, grainfield, lifesaving, magnifical, qualifying.

+4 letters: affiliating, alkalifying, antifouling, backfilling, classifying, deadlifting, defoliating, exfoliating, facelifting, fatiguingly, feudalizing, filagreeing, filmmakings, fingernails, fireballing, firewalling, fishtailing, formalising, formalizing, fulminating, grainfields, highfalutin, infrangible, infrangibly, lapidifying, lifesavings, manifolding, reinflating, unfailingly.

+5 letters: decalcifying, facilitating, faultfinding, federalizing, felicitating, fibrillating, flimflamming, fluoridating, fluorinating, frangibility, fungicidally, gratifyingly, infibulating, infiltrating, insufflating, lifeguarding, magnifically, requalifying, satisfyingly, scarifyingly, syllabifying, uglification.

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