Advertisement
Advertisement
unsuccess
noun as in failure
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccessfulness
- washout
- wreck
Example Sentences
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress;
“It’s really hard to make any kind of assumption based on how last year was, such a weird year, the unsuccess we had, that kind of stuff. It wasn’t a very fun season,” he said during a chat outside the team’s practice facility in Irvine.
Auden instructed poets to “sing of human unsuccess/in a rapture of distress.”
Besides, in one sense, it doesn’t matter much if you secede by force of arms as your forebears tried, with such spectacular unsuccess, almost 160 years ago.
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress;
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse