short, abortive, addle, aground, all up with, at fault, bankrupt, befooled, bootless, borne down,
broken, broken down, capsized, cast away, crossed, dashed, dead beat,
defeated,
deficient,
destroyed,
disconcerted, dished, done for, done up, downtrodden,
failing, flambe, foiled, foundered,
fruitless,
frustrated, grounded, hobbling, hoist on with one's own petard, in a sorry plight,
ineffective,
ineffectual, inefficacious,
inefficient,
insufficient, knocked on the head,
lame, left in the lurch,
lost, minus, nonsuited, oligophrenic, out of depth, out of one's reckoning, overborne,
overwhelmed,
perfunctory, played out,
ruined, ruined root and branch, sacrificed, shipwrecked, short of,
still, struck down, stultified, successless, swamped, thrown away, thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends, tripping, unattained, unavailing, uncompleted, undone,
unfortunate, unhinged, unhorsed, unreached,
unsuccessful, victimized, wide of the mark, wrecked