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Main Entry:	failing
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not well, weak
Synonyms:	defeated, deficient, faint, feeble, inadequate, insufficient, scanty, scarce, short, shy, unavailing, unsuccessful, vain, wanting, declining, scant, unprosperous, unsufficient, unthriving
Notes:	a failing is a flaw or weak point or a failure to reach a minimum required performance; a foible a minor weakness or failing of character
Antonyms:	healthy, strong, thriving, well, ok, rebounding

Main Entry:	failing
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	lapse, shortcoming
Synonyms:	blind spot*, defect, deficiency, drawback, error, failure, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, imperfection, infirmity, miscarriage, misfortune, vice, weakness, weak point
Antonyms:	advantage, strength, strong point

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Main Entry:	fail
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	be unsuccessful
Synonyms:	abort, backslide, blunder, decline, deteriorate, fall, fizzle, flop, flounder, fold, founder, go down, miss, slip, back wrong horse, be defeated, be demoted, be found lacking, be in vain, be ruined, break down, come to naught, come to nothing, fall flat, fall short, fall through, go astray, go down swinging, go downhill, go up in smoke, go wrong, hit bottom, hit the skids, lose control, lose out, lose status, meet with disaster, miscarry, miss the boat, play into, run aground, turn out badly
Antonyms:	accomplish, achieve, earn, gain, merit, obtain, prosper, reach, succeed, win

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Main Entry:	fail
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	abandon, forsake
Synonyms:	abort, back out, blink, break one's word, desert, disappoint, discount, disregard, fault, forget, funk, go astray, ignore, let down, miscarry, neglect, omit, overlook, overpass, slight, slip
Antonyms:	capture, complete, deliver, finish, obtain, procure

Main Entry:	fail
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	lose money
Synonyms:	be cleaned out, be in arrears, be ruined, be taken to the cleaners, become insolvent, break, close, close down, close one's doors, crash, defalcate, default, dishonor, drop, drop a bundle, end, finish, fold, go bankrupt, go belly up, go broke, go bust, go into chapter 11, go out of business, go to the wall, go under, go up, lose big, lose one's shirt, overdraw, repudiate, terminate
Antonyms:	earn, gain, obtain, win

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Main Entry:	abortive
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	failing to achieve a goal
Synonyms:	failing, fruitless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, unavailing, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless, vain, worthless, failed, miscarried
Antonyms:	complete, effectual, efficient, fruitful, productive, successful, consummated

Main Entry:	decay
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	breaking down, collapse
Synonyms:	adulteration, atrophy, blight, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decadence, decline, decomposition, decrease, decrepitude, degeneracy, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, dying, extinction, fading, failing, mortification, rot, rotting, ruin, rust, withering, caries, degeneration, gangrene, impairment, perishing, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, ruination, senescence, spoilage, spoilation, wasting, wasting away
Antonyms:	development, flourish, growth, improvement, strength, germination, ripening, strengthening

Main Entry:	defect
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	blemish, imperfection
Synonyms:	birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, mistake, patch, rift, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, vice, want, weakness, marring, rough spot, unsoundness, weak point
Antonyms:	advantage, improvement, perfection, strength

Main Entry:	defection
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	abandonment
Synonyms:	alienation, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, lack, parting, rebellion, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, withdrawal, apostasy, backsliding, disownment, forsaking, recreancy, severance, sundering, tergiversation
Antonyms:	joining

Main Entry:	deficiency
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	imperfection, inadequacy
Synonyms:	absence, bug, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness
Antonyms:	adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness

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Main Entry:	degenerate
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	corrupt, deteriorated
Synonyms:	base, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, failing, fallen, immoral, infamous, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, retrograde, rotten, sinking, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, wicked, worsen, degenerated, demeaned, flatitious, overripe, retrogressive, vitiated
Antonyms:	moral, upright, virtuous

Main Entry:	drawback
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	disadvantage
Synonyms:	check, defect, deficiency, detriment, difficulty, disability, evil, failing, fault, flaw, handicap, hindrance, hitch, ill, impediment, imperfection, inconvenience, lack, nuisance, obstacle, shortcoming, snag, stumbling block*, trouble, weakness, fly in the ointment
Antonyms:	advantage, benefit, boon, extra, perfection

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Main Entry:	feeble
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not strong; ineffective
Synonyms:	aged, ailing, chicken, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey, effete, enervated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sickly, slight, tame, thin, unconvincing, weak, weakened, woozy, zero*, emasculated, enfeebled, etiolated, out of gas, sapless, strengthless, vitiated, weakly, wimpy
Antonyms:	able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong

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Main Entry:	flaw
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	imperfection
Synonyms:	Catch-22, blemish, bug, catch, defect, failing, fault, foible, glitch, gremlin, pitfall, slipup, speck, spot, stain, vice, wart*, weak spot, weakness, disfigurement, typo
Antonyms:	perfection, strength, fine point

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Main Entry:	foible
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	personal imperfection
Synonyms:	characteristic, defect, eccentricity, failing, fault, frailty, idiosyncrasy, infirmity, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, shortcoming, vice, weakness, singularity, weak point
Antonyms:	strength

Main Entry:	frailty
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	weakness, flaw
Synonyms:	Achilles heel*, blemish, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccadillo, shortcoming, solecism, daintiness, flimsiness, peccability, suscept, weak point
Antonyms:	firmness, strength

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	guilt
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	blame; bad conscience over responsibility
Synonyms:	contrition, crime, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, shame, sin, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong, answerability, blameworthiness, criminality, culpability, malefaction, peccability, self-condemnation, self-reproach, sinfulness
Antonyms:	innocence

Main Entry:	imperfection
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	flaw
Synonyms:	blemish, bug, catch, defect, deficiency, deformity, demerit, failing, fallibility, fault, foible, frailty, glitch, gremlin*, inadequacy, infirmity, insufficiency, peccadillo, problem, shortcoming, sin, stain, taint, weakness, disfigurement, incompleteness, weak point
Antonyms:	excellence, perfection, purity, flawlessness

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Main Entry:	inadequacy
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	shortage, defect, inability
Synonyms:	blemish, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drawback, failing, flaw, imperfection, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, poverty, shortcoming, weakness, defalcation, defectiveness, faultiness, inadequateness, inaptness, incompetency, incompleteness, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, scantiness, skimpiness, underage, unfitness, unsuitableness
Antonyms:	ability, adequacy, enough, plenty, sufficiency

Main Entry:	inadequate
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	defective, insufficient, incompetent
Synonyms:	bare, barren, bush-league, deficient, depleted, dry, failing, faulty, feeble, glitch, imperfect, impotent, inapt, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, insubstantial, junk, lacking, lame, lemon, lousy, low, meager, minus, miserly, parsimonious, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy, sketchy, skimpy, small, spare, sparse, sterile, stunted, thin, unequal, unproductive, unqualified, weak, found wanting, inappreciable, inconsiderable, niggardly, not enough, stinted, too little
Antonyms:	able, adequate, competent, enough, sufficient