successless
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successless (comparative more successless, superlative most successless)
- (now rare) Without success; unsuccessful.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.ii.5:
- “Belfield fired first, and missed; the Baronet was not so successless.”
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 296:
- How successless that expedient has been in regard to curing me of my passion for her, you know too well.