Synonyms of the word

unsuccessful

• adj. Failed, not successful.

abortive

• adj. (obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely.
• adj. Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful.
• adj. (biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
• adj. (medicine, rare, attributive) Causing abortion; abortifacient.
• adj. (medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
• adj. Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
• n. (obsolete) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
• n. (obsolete) A fruitless effort or issue.
• n. (obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.

attempted

• adj. Tried, with the connotation of failure.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of attempt.

defeated

• adj. Subjugated, beaten, overcome.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of defeat.

disappointed

• adj. Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of disappoint.

discomfited

• v. simple past tense and past participle of discomfit.

down-and-out

• adj. Alternative spelling of down and out.
• n. A down-and-outer.

empty-handed

• adj. Alternative form of emptyhanded.

failed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of fail.

failing

• v. present participle of fail.
• n. weakness; defect.
• prep. if the preferred or prior option is not possible.

foiled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of foil.

frustrated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of frustrate.
• adj. Foiled, stopped, disappointed.
• adj. Suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, and/or discontent because one is unable to perform…

goalless

• adj. Devoid of goals; ambitionless.
• adj. (sports) In which no goals have been scored.

hitless

• adj. Without any successful songs.
• adj. (baseball, of a batter) Having failed to make any base hits over a period of time, usually one game.
• adj. (baseball, of a team) Having no hits over a period of time, usually part of one game.

no-win

• adj. Bound to end in failure.

out

• adv. Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
• adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) Visible in the sky; not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
• adv. Away from; at a distance.
• adv. Away from the inside or the centre.
• adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
• adv. To the end; completely.
• adv. Used to intensify or emphasize.
• adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing…
• adv. (procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission…
• prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside.
• prep. (colloquial) outside.
• n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
• n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of…
• n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to…
• n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
• n. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
• n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
• n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to expel.
• v. (transitive) To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender.
• v. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret…
• v. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
• v. To become apparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.
• adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
• adj. (cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman: having caused an out called on himself while batting under…
• adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender.

ruined

• v. simple past tense and past participle of ruin.
• adj. (slang) incapacitated by drugs or alcohol.

scoreless

• adj. no points or goals etc having been scored.

self-defeating

• adj. Of a plan or action: containing elements that will cause it to fail; destined not to succeed by its very…

stillborn

• adj. Dead at birth.
• adj. (figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
• n. A baby that is born dead.

sunk

• v. past participle of sink.
• v. (dialectal) past tense of sink.

thwarted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of thwart.

undone

• adj. Not done.
• adj. Not fastened.
• v. past participle of undo.

unfortunate

• adj. not favored by fortune.
• adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
• n. An unlucky person.

unfruitful

• adj. (chiefly figuratively) Not bearing fruit.

unfulfilled

• adj. Lacking fulfillment; marked by a feeling of failure to achieve goals or desires.
• adj. Not yet provided as promised, particularly with respect to a contract or an order for a supply of something.

unplaced

• adj. Not assigned a place.
• adj. (horse racing) Not among the first three horses to finish a race.

unprofitable

• adj. Not making a profit.

unrealised

• adj. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of unrealized.

unrealized

• adj. Not realized; possible to obtain or achieve, yet not obtained or achieved.

unrewarded

• adj. Not rewarded.

washed-up

• adj. No longer capable, effective or needed; over the hill.

winless

• adj. Having never won; without a win; unsuccessful.