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Unsuccessful vs Unsuccess - What's the difference?

unsuccessful | unsuccess |

As an adjective unsuccessful

is failed, not successful.

As a noun unsuccess is

a lack of success.

unsuccessful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Failed, not successful.
    • His unsuccessful attempt earned him sympathy, condolences...and an occasional good-natured ribbing.

    Antonyms

    * successful

    Derived terms

    * unsuccessfully * unsuccessfulness

    unsuccess

    English

    Noun

  • A lack of success
  • * 1939 , , "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," lines 58-61:
    • With the farming of a verse
    Make a vineyard of the curse,
    Sing of human unsuccess
    In a rapture of distress;