not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
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failing to accomplish an intended result
<adj.all> an abortive revolt a stillborn plot to assassinate the President
Unsuccessful \Un`suc*cess"ful\, a. Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- {Un`suc*cess"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Un`suc*cess"ful*ness}, n.
Later attempts by two helicopters to reach the glacier were also unsuccessful, Ehret said.
He was arrested during an unsuccessful 1985 coup led by Gen. Thomas Quiwonkpa but escaped and rejoined other exiles in Ivory Coast.
He returned to law practice after an unsuccessful campaign for state auditor in 1986.
Fink resigned from R.P. Scherer in November after opposing the sale of the company in an unsuccessful proxy battle with heirs of the founder.
(His two unsuccessful Senate races in Maine also has prepared him for losing).
In other measures: - Louisiana is cutting the waiting time for a divorce in half by no longer requiring a six-month separation before a couple files for divorce. "Our attempts to legislate morality in the divorce process have been unsuccessful.
Duarte proposed Abraham Rodriguez, the party's unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1967 elections, as a unity nominee.
GAF made a hostile bid for the chemical concern in 1985 that, while ultimately unsuccessful, forced Union Carbide into a major restructuring.
The National Football League is considering appealing the ruling stemming from the U.S. Football League's largely unsuccessful antitrust suit against the NFL.
Continental Health made an unsuccessful bid for Healthdyne last year, offering as much as $7 a share, or $105 million, for the company.
The producers of "Die Hard 2" transported cast and crew to three cities in a multimillion-dollar and largely unsuccessful attempt to shoot during a real snowstorm.
Mr Baker ran Mr Bush's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination in 1980 and in his position as White House chief of staff was a key figure in the Reagan re-election campaign of 1984. Mr Mosbacher was more equivocal.
Private insurance has been providing more benefits, largely because states are requiring more coverage, but employers have been unsuccessful in shifting the costs of better coverage to workers, said economist Katharine R. Levit.
Gephardt, an unsuccessful candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, is a former chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and is widely respected by his colleagues.
Efforts to reach Nordstrom family members Wednesday night were unsuccessful.
After more than a half-year delay and EDS's apparent mishandling of a key portion of the plant's automation, last spring the auto maker went back to one of the higher-priced, but established unsuccessful bidders to get the job finished.
The executives bought the stock over a two-year period before Waste Management's unsuccessful bid for Chemlawn in February of last year.
Peres said he doubts that Shamir would be able to form a government, "and if he succeeds it would be an unsuccessful government.
Before that, he was responsible for Raytheon's unsuccessful attempt to sell computers in the non-defense market.
Sundquist managed former Sen. Howard Baker's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1979 and 1980, he said. "A significant number of people are urging him" to get into the race, he added.
Three United Airlines unions, which had been involved in the unsuccessful employee buyout attempt of parent company UAL Inc., announced Friday they would meet to prepare for contract talks.
Attempts by a church mediator to persuade management to resume talks were proving unsuccessful, said Michnik.
Fitzpatrick, 60, veteran of four unsuccessful political campaigns, is waging another low-budget campaign.
Duke, who disavows his white-supremacist past but campaigns against programs such as affirmative action, was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate this fall.
If their efforts are unsuccessful and they do become pregnant, many, but by no means all, turn to abortion.
It was attacked by Lasmo during Enterprise's unsuccessful bid.
In 1980, William Koch led dissident stockholders in an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control from Charles.
When they found that they were going to be unsuccessful, they turned on me." Poindexter faces five criminal charges in a trial scheduled to begin Jan. 22.
Mr. Gunter resigned as insurance commissioner in 1988 for an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate.
Cruz said two of the 12 Panamanians who sought refuge in the Peruvian Embassy were suspects in the killing of Maj. Moises Giroldi, who led an unsuccessful coup attempt against Noriega on Oct. 3.