not successful; not achieving what you wanted to:
His efforts to get a job proved unsuccessful. * They were unsuccessful in meeting their objectives for the year. * She made several unsuccessful attempts to see him.
unsuccessfully adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for unsuccessful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unsuccessful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unsuccessful is tagged as adjective.
Does unsuccessful appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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