UNSUCCESSFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsuccessfully mean? 

• UNSUCCESSFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNSUCCESSFULLY has 1 sense:

1. without success

  Familiarity information: UNSUCCESSFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSUCCESSFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without success

Context example:

she tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a new car

Antonym:

successfully (with success; in a successful manner)

Pertainym:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

 Context examples 

We were going through the three first acts, and not unsuccessfully upon the whole.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

An activity that is successfully or unsuccessfully completed.

(Performed Clinical Study Activity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Activities specified in a clinical study protocol which have been successfully or unsuccessfully completed.

(Performed Clinical Study Activity, NCI Thesaurus)

I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She went—she had driven once unsuccessfully to the door, but had not been into the house since the morning after Box Hill, when poor Jane had been in such distress as had filled her with compassion, though all the worst of her sufferings had been unsuspected.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Pangloss for himself; and very earnestly, but very unsuccessfully, trying to persuade the others that there were some fine tragic parts in the rest of the dramatis personae.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The girl addressed was trying, unsuccessfully, to slump against my shoulder. At this inquiry she sat up and opened her eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Sit down Daisy." Tom's voice groped unsuccessfully for the paternal note. "What's been going on? I want to hear all about it."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)