Synonyms for FAILING
ˈfeɪ lɪŋfail·ing

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1. failing

   Synonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

   Antonyms:
   hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

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1. failing, weaknessnoun

   a flaw or weak point

   "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"

   Synonyms:
   impuissance, flunk, weakness, failing, helplessness

   Antonyms:
   qualifying, pass, passing, satisfactory

2. failing, flunkadjective

   failure to reach a minimum required performance

   "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report"

   Synonyms:
   flunk, weakness, failing

   Antonyms:
   pass, qualifying, passing, satisfactory

3. failingadjective

   below acceptable in performance

   "received failing grades"

   Antonyms:
   qualifying, passing, pass, satisfactory

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1. • Imperfection

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1. failingnoun

   Synonyms:
   decline, decay

2. failingnoun

   Synonyms:
   miscarriage, failure

3. failingnoun

   Synonyms:
   fault, foible, frailty, lapse, error, slip, shortcoming, imperfection, deficiency, defect, weakness, infirmity, weak side, blind side

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1. failingnoun

   Synonyms:
   shortcoming, deficiency, imperfection, foible, fault, infirmity, defect, errancy, fallibility, decline, deterioration

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1. List of paraphrases for "failing":

   failure, omitting, fault, neglecting

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How to use FAILING in a sentence?

1. Mark Zuckerberg:

   People pay far too high a cost — and have to wait far too long — to send money home to their families abroad. The current system is failing them.

2. Tucker Carlson:

   For three years, nobody in Washington talked about any of this, in fact, failing to worry about Russia exclusively invited suspicion on you.

3. John Hickenlooper:

   We have to focus on where Donald Trump is failing, donald Trump is malpractice personified. We've got to point that out. ... Why are we lurching from one international crisis to another ? All things he promised American voters. We have to focus on that and the economy and jobs and training, so that we can promise a future for America that everybody wants to invest in.

4. Ron DeSantis:

   Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law, this indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president.

5. Mark Dubowitz:

   The President Joe Biden administration's Iran policy is failing, and without a significant course correction that policy will either result in Iranian nuclear weapons or in a war to stop that development.