Word Meanings - INSUCCESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Want of success. Feltham.
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- SUCCESS
1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. - SUCCESSLESS
Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n. - SUCCESSION
1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to - SUCCESSIVELY
In a successive manner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton. - SUCCESSFUL
Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, - SUCCESSIONIST
A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid. - SUCCESSIVE
1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes - SUCCESSARY
Succession. My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased with my blood. Beau. & Fl. - SUCCESSOR
One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king. Chaucer. A gift to a corporation, either of lands - SUCCESSIVENESS
The quality or state of being successive. - SUCCESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth." Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv. - UNSUCCESSFUL
Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n. - INSUCCESS
Want of success. Feltham. - MISSUCCESS
Failure. - UNSUCCESS
Want of success; failure; misfortune. Prof. Wilson.