unsuccess

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noun

A lack of success.

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Meanings

noununsuccess (countable and uncountable, plural unsuccesses)

plural unsuccesses

  1. countableuncountableA lack of success.

    With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress

    1939, W. H. Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, lines 58–61

Origin

From un- + success.

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APA

unsuccess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsuccess

MLA

“unsuccess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsuccess. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsuccess,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsuccess.

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