| 词组 | unsuccessful |
| 释义 | unsuccessful /ˌʌnsəkˈsesfəl◂/ adjective not achieving what you wanted to achievenounsan unsuccessful attempt/bid/effort The prisoners made an unsuccessful attempt to escape.an unsuccessful application Unfortunately, on this occasion your application was unsuccessful.an unsuccessful candidate/applicant (=for a job or course) She was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2008.an unsuccessful campaign There was an unsuccessful campaign to stop the road from being built.adverbslargely unsuccessful (=mostly unsuccessful) Their efforts to attract support were largely unsuccessful.ultimately unsuccessful (=unsuccessful at the end) His appeal was ultimately unsuccessful.singularly unsuccessful formal (=very unsuccessful) The peace talks were singularly unsuccessful and the fighting began again soon afterwards.verbsprove unsuccessful formal (=be shown to be unsuccessful) The search for life on other planets has so far proved unsuccessful.prepositionsbe unsuccessful in (doing) sth He was unsuccessful in obtaining a visa.THESAURUS: unsuccessful failedattempt | marriage | experiment | robbery | uprising | coup | policy | artist | musician used about things that are unsuccessful, or about people who have been unsuccessful at a type of work. Failed sounds stronger and more disapproving than unsuccessful: They were involved in a failed attempt to blow up a plane. | He was almost 50, with two failed marriages behind him. | He was executed after a failed coup against the president (=an attempt to change the leader or the government by force). | Her husband was a failed artist.Failed is always used before a noun. doomedattempt | effort | love affair if something is doomed, you know that it will be unsuccessful and that bad things will happen: He made a doomed attempt to reach the South Pole. | ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is the story of a doomed love affair. | Some people say that the government’s economic policy is doomed to failure (=certain to fail). abortiveattempt | coup an abortive attempt is unsuccessful and has to be abandoned before it is finished: Two US marines died in an abortive attempt to rescue the hostages. | He was the leader of an abortive coup against the military government (=an attempt to change the leader or the government by force).Abortive is always used before a noun. fruitlesssearch | attempt | effort | exercise | task not producing the result you want, especially after you have spent a lot of time and effort: I spent the next three hours in a fruitless search for my car keys. | The company made a series of fruitless attempts to persuade the banks to lend them money. | The meeting was a fruitless exercise.Instead of saying that something was unsuccessful, you can say that it was a failure or it ended in failure: The experiment was unsuccessful. The experiment was a failure/ended in failure.You can also say that someone tried in vain to do something (=their efforts were unsuccessful): The firefighters tried in vain to save the house. |
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