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unsucceedable

unsucceedable adjective: not able or likely to succeed.

Adjective

unsucceedable (comparative more unsucceedable, superlative most unsucceedable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Not able or likely to succeed.
    • And therefore when in the tentation of Christ [Satan] played upon the fallacy, and thought to deceive the Author of truth, the method of this proceeding arose from the uncertainty of his divinity; whereof had he remained assured, he had continued silent; nor would his discretion attempt to...1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 2, p. 5

Forms of unsucceedable

comparativemore unsucceedable
superlativemost unsucceedable

Origin of unsucceedable

From un- + succeed + -able.

Questions about unsucceedable

What does unsucceedable mean?
Unsucceedable means not able or likely to succeed.
What part of speech is unsucceedable?
Unsucceedable is an adjective.

Words near unsucceedable in the dictionary

  1. unsubventioned
  2. unsubversive
  3. unsubvertable
  4. unsubverted
  5. unsubvertible
  6. unsucceedable
  7. unsucceeded
  8. unsucceeding
  9. unsuccess
  10. unsuccesses
  11. unsuccessful

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