unsuccessful
Use Unsuccessful in a sentence
səkˈsɛs adjective
not achieving or not attended with success: an unsuccessful person; an unsuccessful venture.
Related forms
un·suc·cess·ful·ly, adverb
un·suc·cess·ful·ness, noun
Synonyms
hapless, unfortunate, foiled, baffled.
hapless, unfortunate, foiled, baffled.
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unsuccessful (ˌʌnsəkˈsɛsfʊl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| not having succeeded | |
| unsuccessfully | |
| —adv | |
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Unsuccessful
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
The fellow thought he was a lunatic at large and made an unsuccessful attempt to shut him into the taproom.
Attempts to reach the company for comment were unsuccessful.
There has never been an unsuccessful batch, yet no batch is ever identical to any other.
Attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician were unsuccessful.
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