Synonyms for unsuccessful
un·suc·cess·ful

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1. unsuccessfuladjective

   Antonyms:
   successful

2. unsuccessfuladjective

   His unsuccessful attempt earned him sympathy, condolences...and an occasional good-natured ribbing.

   Antonyms:
   successful

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1. unsuccessful

   Synonyms:
   futile, vain, ineffectual, fruitless, unfortunate

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1. unsuccessfuladjective

   not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

   Synonyms:
   abortive, stillborn

   Antonyms:
   prospering, flourishing, boffo, self-made, made, prosperous, no-hit, winning, successful, productive, fruitful, thriving, sure-fire, in(p), triple-crown, booming, palmy, roaring, victorious

2. abortive, stillborn, unsuccessfuladjective

   failing to accomplish an intended result

   "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

   Synonyms:
   abortive, stillborn

   Antonyms:
   self-made, triple-crown, booming, palmy, in(p), winning, made, fruitful, roaring, thriving, sure-fire, prosperous, flourishing, victorious, boffo, prospering, successful, no-hit, productive

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1. unsuccessfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   unavailing, ineffectual, abortive, fruitless, bootless, profitless, vain, futile, in vain

2. unsuccessfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   luckless, unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous, ill-starred, ill-fated

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1. unsuccessfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous, abortive, fruitless, unavailing, bootless, ineffectual, futile

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1. List of paraphrases for "unsuccessful":

   fruitless, failed, abortive, aborted, vain, futile, non-reportable, incorrect, unproductive, ineffective

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1. Tim Bale:

   The danger is that If you increase the salience of the issue, and you're completely unsuccessful in managing it, you can create a real problem in expectations, i think Priti Patel risks doing exactly the same.

2. Ron Miller:

   Early challenges for entrepreneurs will be that it will require a true pioneer to be the first to step out and take advantage of these new rules. That means, that the individual entrepreneurs who are early adopters will have to figure out the successful and unsuccessful tactics to employ when raising capital from a crowd.

3. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973:

   Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

4. Xavier Becerra:

   These rulings critically stop President Trump's illegal money grab to divert $ 2.5 billion of unauthorized funding for President Donald Trump pet project, all President President Donald Trump has succeeded in building is a constitutional crisis, threatening immediate harm to our state. President Donald Trump said President Donald Trump didn't have to do this and that President Donald Trump would be unsuccessful in court. Today we proved that statement true.

5. Wolfgang Merkel:

   I am not a big sympathizer of this government, nevertheless, they were rather successful in containing the crisis... especially if you look at the UK or the US who are seen as the unsuccessful examples.