Words and phrases that have a meaning related to failing: (202 results)
Antonyms:
pass, passing, qualifying
Often used in the same context:
refusing, neglecting, attempting, trying, struggling, forcing, botching, obliged, conspiring, mishandling, ignoring, evading, scrambling, squandering, must, shirking, requiring, lacking, did, prompting, breaching, bungled, allowing, endeavoring, helping, disregarding, wanting, abandoning, agreeing, losing, reneging, stalling, obstructing, urged, dooming, obligated, negligent, flunking, disobeying, pressuring, floundering, flagging, faltering, needed, forfeiting, supposed, managed, falsifying, foundering, vowed, spurning, letting, striving, deserting, ordered, instructing, collapsing, overcharging, pledging, compelled, colluding, willful neglect, abdicating, intending, flouting, poised, snubbing, seeking, contriving, summoned, penalizing, committing, preparing, could, undermining, hindering, concealing, faking, skipping, violating, depriving, having, aiming, jeopardizing, mismanaged, misusing, misrepresenting, rebuffed, sabotaging, mounting, disinclined, crumbling, implored, promised, unequipped, misbehaving, inflating, persuading, pleading, lagging, punishing, impeding, accompanist, advertiser, albums, backer, biographer, biographers, chronicler, comforters, commentator, confidant, confidante, consoler, critic, critics, delineator, doctors, encouragement, ever, expositor, expositors, buoyant, enfeebled, feeble, tyrannous, declining, dioptric, enormous, feeblest, found, great, greater, groat, inexhaustible, inordinate, irresistible, latent, limitless, manlier, mighty
More specific:
fatigue, inadequacy, insufficiency, tragic flaw
Appears in the definition of:
., abortive, apologise, apologize, cop out, criminal negligence, culpable negligence, default, defect, delinquent, derelict, discard, dud, dysfunctional, evasion, failure, forgetful, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, indiscriminate, loser, mum, neglectful, nonadaptive, nonobservant, nonpayment, nonremittal, nonstarter, oblivious, opt out, persevering, remiss, shortcoming, silent, slippage, stillborn, thoughtlessness, tottering, unenlightening, unfunny, unilluminating, unlawfulness, unsuccessful, unsuccessful person
More general:
imperfection, imperfectness
Synonyms:
Also try:deteriorating, failed, regressing, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, unsatisfactory, weakness
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