Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

failingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fail-ing-ly
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a failing manner.

Example Sentences

"I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]"

Etymology

From failing + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more failingly (comparative) most failingly (superlative)

Derived Forms

unfailingly

Questions

What does failingly mean?: In a failing manner.
Where does failingly come from?: From failing + -ly.

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