[{"word":"failing","phonetic":"/ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To be unsuccessful.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Throughout my life, I have always failed."},{"definition":"Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The truck failed to start."},{"definition":"To neglect.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors."},{"definition":"Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"After running five minutes, the engine failed."},{"definition":"To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I failed English last year."},{"definition":"To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments."},{"definition":"To miss attaining; to lose.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The crops failed last year."},{"definition":"To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"A sick man fails."},{"definition":"To perish; to die; used of a person.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To err in judgment; to be mistaken.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["fall on one's face","flunk"],"antonyms":["succeed"]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"Weakness; defect","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"His worst failing is his temper."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"preposition","definitions":[{"definition":"If the preferred or prior option is not possible","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fail","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/failing"]}]