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Definition of "unsuccess" [un•suc•cess]

  • Failure to achieve a desired end. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unsuccess" in a sentence
  • "Whether one can fairly use the word "unsuccess" in reference to verse which succeeds so exquisitely as Mr. de la Mare's in being literature is a nice question."
  • "Larkin was beginning as he put it himself, retrospectively "to find out what life was about": not failure exactly but "unsuccess"."
  • "Why would I want to take the game for another hunter and rob them of their success, or unsuccess for that matter?"