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Exact Match:

failing

failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report"

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

below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"

Synonyms:

• 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