success
noun
the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.
successless
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a word derived from
success.
Example Sentences
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That he had fish we all persisted in believing, in spite of all the successless angling of all kinds that from time immemorial had assailed his sullen depths;—but what a place for pow-heads!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
The etherial people flocked for news in haste, Whom they, with down-cast looks, and scarce saluting past: While each did, in his pensive breast, prepare A sad account of their successless care.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
The hero he celebrates made a brave but successless attempt to rescue it from slavery.
From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans
I ask not why he did remove To happy Mamre's holy grove, Leaving the cities of the plain To Lot and his successless train?
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
Such was the successless armament of Xerxes described by Herodotus, or the successful expedition of Alexander related by Arrian.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
