Dead
Dead adjective - No longer living.
Unsuccessful and dead are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unsuccessful" instead an adjective "Dead".
Nearby Word: deadly
Unsuccessful
Unsuccessful adjective - Producing no results.
Dead and unsuccessful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead an adjective "Unsuccessful".
Nearby Word: unsuccessfully
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Subverted in Sluggy Freelance where Torg's attempts to get his dead friend Bert's painting into a gallery are wildly unsuccessful.
Source: Dead Artists Are Better -
He was taken to a hospital, where efforts to revive him were unsuccessful and he was declared dead.
Source: Music / Hideto Matsumoto -
Dead Guy on Display: The main hall outside Ryan's office is lined with corpses impaled onto pillars, all unsuccessful saboteurs or assassins.
Source: Video Game / BioShock
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