Words and phrases that have a meaning related to unsuccessful: (173 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
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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:
Also try:attempted, done for, down-and-out, empty-handed, failing, goalless, hitless, losing, out, scoreless, self-defeating, stillborn, sunk, undone, unfulfilled, unplaced, unrealized, unrewarded, washed-up, winless
— Nouns for unsuccessful: attempt, attempts, efforts, candidate, effort, attack, campaign, expedition, war, search, bid, more...
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