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unsuccessful synonyms
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- failed
- failing
- fruitless
- futile
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- miscarried
- unavailing
- unproductive
- unsuccessful
- useless
- vain
- worthless
- conquered
- crushed
- overcome
- adverse
- calamitous
- cataclysmal
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- destructive
- dire
- dreadful
- fatal
- fateful
- hapless
- harmful
- ill-fated
- bedeviled
- bewitched
- convicted
- cursed
- cut down
- damned
- dead duck
- destroyed
- done
- done for
- fated
- fey
- foreordained
- abort
- back wrong horse
- backslide
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- blunder
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- decline
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bilk
- bollix
- buffalo
- check
- checkmate
- counter
- crab
- cramp
- crimp
- curb
- abortive
- barren
- empty
- futile
- gainless
- idle
- in vain
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- infertile
- pointless
- profitless
- spinning one's wheels
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- empty
- exhausted
- forlorn
- fruitless
- hollow
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- in vain
- blighted
- catastrophic
- destroyed
- disastrous
- hapless
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- inauspicious
- luckless
- misfortunate
- ruined
- star-crossed
- unfortunate
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- emasculate
- feckless
- feeble
- forceless
- fruitless
- futile
- idle
- impotent
- futile
- hopeless
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- ineffective
- inefficient
- insufficient
- unable
- unavailing
- unproductive
- vain
- weak
- defeated
- doomed
- failing
- falling
- ruined
- undone
- unsuccessful
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bilk
- check
- circumvent
- confuse
- counter
- crab
- cramp
- crimp
- cross
- curb
- afflicted
- bad break
- behind eight ball
- black
- calamitous
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- cursed
- dire
- disastrous
- down on luck
- hapless
- hard luck
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- arrogant
- big-headed
- boastful
- cocky
- conceited
- egocentric
- egoistic
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- inflated
- narcissistic
- ostentatious
- overweening
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