unsuccessfully

English

Etymology

From unsuccessful +‎ -ly or un- +‎ successfully.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

unsuccessfully (comparative more unsuccessfully, superlative most unsuccessfully)

1. Not successfully; without success; to no avail.
   • 2019 May 1, Nathan Rabin, “My World of Flops Get a Load of This Maroon Case File #121/My Year of Flops # 18 Jacob Wohl”, in Nathan Rabin's Happy Place‎^[1]:

     He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.

Synonyms

• fruitlessly

Antonyms

• successfully

Related terms

• unsuccessful
• successful

Translations

not successfully; without success

• Czech: neúspěšně
• Esperanto: sensukcese
• Georgian: წარუმატებლად (c̣arumaṭeblad)
• Hindi: असफलतापूर्वक (asphaltāpūrvak)
• Hungarian: sikertelenül (hu)
• Russian: безуспе́шно (ru) (bezuspéšno)
• Spanish: infructuosamente (es)