unsuccessful

unsuccessful
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. unprosperous, unfortunate, unavailing, unproductive. See failure.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. defeated, disappointed, frustrated, nonsuited, abortive, aborted, disastrous, unprosperous, unproductive, unfortunate, unlucky, futile, vain, in vain, failing, failed, fruitless, worthless, sterile, bootless, unavailing, ineffectual, ineffective, inefficacious, immature, manqué (French), useless, foiled, shipwrecked, overwhelmed, overpowered, broken, overborne, ruined, destroyed, thwarted, crossed, disconcerted, dashed, circumvented, premature, inoperative, of no effect, balked, duped, left holding the sack*, skunked*, stymied*, jinxed*, out of luck*, stuck*.
Ant. successful*, fortunate, lucky.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
a failure, a loser, *a turkey, *a dog, *aflop, *abomb, unprofitable, fruitless, futile, vain, useless, abortive, ineffectual, unfortunate, unlucky, unhappy, ill-fated, doomed, disastrous, catastrophic.
ANT.: successful, profitable, winning, fortunate
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Having no useful result: barren, bootless, fruitless, futile, unavailing, unprofitable, useless, vain. Idiom: in vain. See THRIVE, USED.

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