Usually means: Not achieving intended or desired goals.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word unsuccessful:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsuccessful: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unsuccessful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unsuccessful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unsuccessful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unsuccessful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unsuccessful, unsuccessful: Wordnik
  7. unsuccessful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unsuccessful: Wiktionary
  9. unsuccessful: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. unsuccessful: Dictionary.com
  11. unsuccessful: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. unsuccessful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Unsuccessful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. unsuccessful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. unsuccessful: Rhymezone
  16. Unsuccessful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. unsuccessful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. unsuccessful: Free Dictionary
  19. unsuccessful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unsuccessful: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsuccessful: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsuccessful: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Failed, not successful.

Similar:
unfulfilled, winless, unfruitful, goalless, self-defeating, failed, unrealized, unrewarded, undone, done for, more...

Opposite:
successful, triumphant, victorious, prosperous, flourishing

Types:
failure, defeat, loss, setback, misfortune, disappointment, letdown, blunder, flub, more...

Phrases:
unsuccessful person, Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States, Unsuccessful nominations to the Cabinet of the United States, Einstein's unsuccessful investigations, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     dull red,     olive, more...


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Similar:
unfulfilled, winless, unfruitful, goalless, self-defeating, failed, unrealized, unrewarded, undone, done for, more...

Opposite:
successful, triumphant, victorious, prosperous, flourishing

Types:
failure, defeat, loss, setback, misfortune, disappointment, letdown, blunder, flub, more...

Phrases:
unsuccessful person, Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States, Unsuccessful nominations to the Cabinet of the United States, Einstein's unsuccessful investigations, more...

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     dull red,     olive, more...



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