Word Meanings - FAILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson. 2. The act of becoming

Additional info about word: FAILING

1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson. 2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt. Syn. -- See Fault.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FAILING)

• Foible
• Peccadillo
• failing
• fault
• weakness
• infirmity
• Infirm
• Weak
• decrepit
• lame
• unsound
• irresolute
• feeble
• enfeebled

Related words: (words related to FAILING)

• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• PECCADILLO
  A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.
• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• FEEBLE
  OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• DECREPITNESS
  Decrepitude. Barrow.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• INFIRMNESS
  Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
• DECREPITATE
  To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
• INFIRMARIAN
  A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.
• IRRESOLUTE
  Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper. Syn. -- Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- Ir*res"o*lute*ly, adv. --
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• ENFEEBLEMENT
  The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• FOIBLE
  Weak; feeble. Lord Herbert.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• DECREPITUDE
  The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.