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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome;

2. failing to accomplish an intended result;
- Example: "an abortive revolt"
- Example: "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"
[syn: abortive, stillborn, unsuccessful]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unsuccessful \Un`suc*cess"ful\, a. Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unsuccessful adj 1: not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome [ant: successful] 2: failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President" [syn: abortive, stillborn, unsuccessful]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

24 Moby Thesaurus words for "unsuccessful": abortive, balked, beaten, bootless, cursed, defeated, foiled, fruitless, frustrated, hapless, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, luckless, sterile, unavailing, unfortunate, unfruitful, unlucky, unproductive, unprofitable, useless, vain, worthless