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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to unsuccessful:   (183 results)

Antonyms:
successful

Often used in the same context:
fruitless, abortive, futile, successful, unfruitful, aborted, vain, quixotic, unavailing, botched, ineffective, unable, unfeasible, ineffectual, stalled, valiant, desperate, unproductive, invalid, disastrous, acrimonious, misguided, costly, unwilling, subsequent, arduous, fruitful, unreachable, frantic, reluctant, initial, infrequent, unavailable, inconclusive, eleventh hour, uneventful, hopeless, unrelated, late, audacious, impractical, pointless, difficult, frustrating, amenable, satisfactory, unresponsive, contentious, unfounded, unpopular, uncooperative, unsatisfactory, unopposed, prohibitive, unorthodox, exhausting, worthwhile, uneconomical, unrewarding, undistinguished, clumsy, unsatisfying, longshot, foundering, risky, lengthy, exploratory, infeasible, unlikely, protracted, improbable, foolhardy, impossible, opportunistic, unpromising, overturned, early, unconvincing, inaccurate, unsuitable, untenable, evasive, unsympathetic, controversial, laughable, unsatisfied, elusive, maladroit, unhelpful, wayward, herculean, inept, plausible, receptive, unreceptive, unsupportable, uneconomic, feasible, insufficient, unforthcoming, untrue, viable, cessful, succesful, failed, illfated, fullscale, advised, fated, filibustering, illadvised, vigorous, concerted

Appears in the definition of:
aeneas silvius, boxer, brown, dardanelles, dardanelles campaign, defeat, defeated, disappointed, discomfited, dud, enea silvio piccolomini, fail, flop, foiled, frustrated, gag, go wrong, heave, inauspiciousness, john brown, licking, louis ix, louis vii, miscarry, mollification, nihil, outa, pius ii, pontiac, retch, ruined, saint louis, search, silly, st. louis, strike out, thwarted, unpropitiousness, washout

Synonyms:
abortive, attempted, defeated, disappointed, discomfited, done for, down-and-out, empty-handed, failed, failing, foiled, frustrated, goalless, hitless, losing, out, ruined, scoreless, self-defeating, stillborn, sunk, thwarted, undone, unfruitful, unfulfilled, unplaced, unrealized, unrewarded, washed-up, winless

Also try:
— Nouns for unsuccessful: attempt, attempts efforts, candidate, effort, attack, campaign, expedition, war, search, bid, more...

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