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Antonyms for non successes
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : suhk-ses |
Phonetic Transcription : səkˈsɛs |
- accomplishment
- accuracy
- achievement
- achiever
- adequacy
- advance
- advantage
- aid
- ascent
- assistance
- attainment
- benefit
- betterment
- blessing
- boon
- boost
- building
- carriage
- certainty
- comfort
- construction
- contentedness
- continuation
- cooperation
- correction
- creation
- delight
- development
- earnings
- encouragement
- enough
- euphoria
- facilitation
- forfeit
- gain
- good fortune
- happiness
- help
- improvement
- increase
- merit
- miracle
- perfection
- pleasure
- plenty
- promotion
- relief
- rise
- satisfaction
- strength
- success
- sufficiency
- support
- surrender
- triumph
- truth
- victory
- win
- wonder
- yielding
Definition of non successes
Origin :- 1530s, "result, outcome," from Latin successus "an advance, succession, happy outcome," from succedere "come after" (see succeed). Meaning "accomplishment of desired end" (good success) first recorded 1580s.
- The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That -- with the squalid interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease. [William James to H.G. Wells, Sept. 11, 1906]
- Success story is attested from 1925. Among the French phrases used in English late 19c. were succès d'estime "cordial reception given to a literary work out of respect rather than admiration" and succès de scandale "success (especially of a work of art) dependent upon its scandalous character."
- As in miscarriage : noun failure
- As in insolvency : noun failure
- As in licking : noun defeat
- As in nonfeasance : noun failure
- As in thrashing : noun defeat
- As in unsuccess : noun failure
- As in unsuccessfulness : noun failure
- As in vanquishment : noun defeat
- As in defeat : noun overthrow, beating
- As in disappointment : noun mental upset; displeasure
- As in failure : noun lack of success
- As in frustration : noun disappointment, thwarting
Synonyms for non successes
- abortion
- adverse fate
- adversity
- ambush
- annihilation
- annoyance
- bafflement
- bankruptcy
- beating
- bitter pill
- blocking
- blow
- bomb
- botch
- break
- breakdown
- bummer
- bungle
- bust
- chagrin
- check
- checkmate
- circumvention
- collapse
- conquest
- contravention
- count
- curbing
- debacle
- decay
- decline
- default
- defeasance
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- delinquency
- dereliction
- despondency
- destruction
- deterioration
- discomfiture
- discontent
- discouragement
- disenchantment
- disgruntlement
- disillusion
- disillusionment
- dissatisfaction
- distress
- downer
- downfall
- downthrow
- drag
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- error
- extermination
- failing
- failure
- fall
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- fizzle
- flash in the pan
- flop
- foiling
- frustration
- grievance
- hindrance
- impediment
- implosion
- inadequacy
- insuccess
- interruption
- irritation
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- lack of success
- lead balloon
- lemon
- letdown
- licking
- loser
- loss
- malfunction
- massacre
- mastery
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- mischance
- misfire
- mishap
- miss
- misstep
- mistake
- mortification
- neglect
- nonfulfillment
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- obstruction
- old one-two
- omission
- overthrow
- paddling
- perversion
- rebuff
- regret
- repulse
- resentment
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- rupture
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- sinking ship
- slaughter
- stalemate
- stoppage
- subjugation
- the knocks
- thrashing
- total loss
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- turkey
- undoing
- unfulfillment
- unsuccess
- unsuccessfulness
- vanquishment
- vexation
- washout
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
- wreck
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