successless
adjEtymology From success + -less.
1
Archaic Without success; unsuccessful.
- “Belfield fired first, and missed; the Baronet was not so successless.”1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.ii.5:
- How successless that expedient has been in regard to curing me of my passion for her, you know too well.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 296:
- Derived terms
- successlessly, successlessness