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unsuccessful

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
unsuccessful/ʌnsəkˈsesfl/

▶adjective not successful.

– derivatives
unsuccessfully adverb,
unsuccessfulness noun.

'unsuccessful' also found in these Oxford entries:

also-ran - busted flush - catastrophic - clunker - dead duck - disastrous - drongo - dry - fail - failure - false start - hit - lame duck - miss - mug - mumblety-peg - nadir - plughole - stick - strike - titch - trier - turkey - whiff

Forum discussions with the word(s) "unsuccessful" in the title:

but (it?) was unsuccessful
what does either mean in this{Those candidates who were unsuccessful in either paper}
your application [was/has been] unsuccessful

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