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unsucˈcessful, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
Not attended by, not meeting or attaining, success. a. Of actions, endeavours, etc.
1617Moryson Itin. ii. 48 Griefe of vnsuccessefull loue. 1651Baxter Infant Baptism 161 They are cited by Conradus Bergius in his most excellent Pacificatory (though hitherto much unsuccessfull) Treatise. 1685Dryden Sylvæ Pref. ⁋6 These..deserve the pains I have taken with them, which I hope have not been unsuccessful, or unworthy of my author. 1744Berkeley Siris §6 Which trials I never knew unsuccessful. 1809Coleridge Friend 37 An unsuccessful attempt to deceive him. 1837Lockhart Scott II. xii. 407 Mr. Southey's application was unsuccessful. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vii. 300, I have shot nothing; two hard unsuccessful days.
b. Of persons.
1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. ii. i. 309 The unsuccessful rebel thus secured By speedy flight. 1714Addison Spect. No. 592 ⁋1 Which, as I am informed, are the Plays of many unsuccessful Poets artificially cut and shreaded for that Use. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 100 To be unsuccessful or unfortunate, is generally to be criminal in the opinion of mankind. 1828Lytton Pelham II. x, My unsuccessful opponent..preferred a petition against me, for what he called undue means. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 152 If a man doesn't make money..he is regarded only as an unpractical, unsuccessful enthusiast.
absol.1750Johnson Rambler No. 87 ⁋9 The unsuccessful vent their discontent upon those that excel them. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner iv, So many sail to those distant havens of the unsuccessful. |