English-Thai Dictionary

failing

N ความผิด  ความอ่อนแอ  shortcoming defect kwam-pid

 

failing

N ความล้มเหลว  failure kwam-lom-leo

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FAILING

ppr. Becoming deficient or insufficient; becoming weaker; decaying; declining; omitting; not executing or performing; miscarrying; neglecting; wanting; becoming bankrupt or insolvent.

 

FAILING

n. 1. The act of failing; deficiency; imperfection; lapse; fault. Failings, in a moral sense, are minor faults, proceeding rather from weakness of intellect or from carelessness, than from bad motives. But the word is often abusively applied to vices of a grosser kind.
2. The act of failing or becoming insolvent.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FAILING

FAILING Fail "ing, n.

 

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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

failing

fail ing |ˈfāliNG ˈfeɪlɪŋ | ▶noun a weakness, esp. in character; a shortcoming: pride is a terrible failing. ▶preposition in default of; in the absence of: she longed to be with him and, failing that, to be on her own.

 

Oxford Dictionary

failing

fail |ing |ˈfeɪlɪŋ | ▶noun a weakness, especially in a person's character; a shortcoming: pride is a terrible failing. ▶preposition in the absence of; if not: she longed to be with him and, failing that, to be alone.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

failing

failing noun Deborah accepted him despite his failings: fault, shortcoming, weakness, imperfection, defect, flaw, frailty, foible, idiosyncrasy, vice. ANTONYMS strength. ▶preposition failing financial assistance, you will be bankrupt: in the absence of, lacking, barring, absent, without.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

failing

failing noun Jeanne accepted him despite his failings: fault, shortcoming, weakness, weak point, weak spot, imperfection, defect, flaw, blemish, frailty, infirmity, foible, quirk, idiosyncrasy, vice; deficiency, inadequacy, limitation. ANTONYMS strength. ▶preposition failing further financial assistance, you should declare yourself bankrupt: in the absence of, in default of, lacking, wanting, notwithstanding.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

failing

f á il ing 形容詞 破綻 （はたん ）しかけた, だめになりつつある ▸ in a failing light 次第に薄れる光の中で ▸ failing memory 衰えてきた記憶力 名詞 C 〖通例 ～s 〗失敗, 欠点 ; 弱点 .前置詞 …がない場合には, …がないので .