[
UK
/ʌnsəksˈɛsfəl/
]
[ US /ˌənsəkˈsɛsfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌənsəkˈsɛsfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
-
failing to accomplish an intended result
an abortive revolt
a stillborn plot to assassinate the President
How To Use unsuccessful In A Sentence
- The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
- The final proposals were a rather unsuccessful compromise between the need for profitability and the demands of local conservationists.
- Unsuccessful at screen writing, he got a spot on a CNN film show.
- Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
- Any attempt to incorporate it after the contract is made will be unsuccessful.
- Americans tried to take part of British Canada in December 1775, when forces led by Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery unsuccessfully attacked Quebec.
- his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
- Attempts to locate the lorry at Harwich International Port were unsuccessful.
- The book opens with Blanche White in jail for unsuccessfully kiting checks to buy groceries with.
- Behind every successful man there's a lot u unsuccessful years.