Unsuccessful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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