failing

«failing» in Mova's school dictionary: a fault or weakness in a person's character or behaviour — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (failings)

meaning for a pupil

A failing is a fault or weakness in a person's character or behaviour. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales a hero or king has failings like pride or greed; in the lessons it names a weakness, not a sin

examples

• Everyone has some failings. tree →
• Pride was his greatest failing. tree →
• Be kind about the failings of others. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it is reading well.
• "Needs improvement", on a school report, means the work is poor or failing.
• Doing the same fix over and over rarely fixes anything; when the connection keeps failing, ask a grown-up.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «failing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.