Antonyms for attempt

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : uh-tempt

Phonetic Transcription : əˈtɛmpt

Definition of attempt

Origin : late 14c., from Old French attempter (14c.), earlier atenter "to try, attempt, test," from Latin attemptare "to try" (cf. Italian attentare, Old Provençal, Portuguese attentar, Spanish atentar), from ad- "to, upon" (see ad-) + temptare "to try" (see tempt). Related: Attempted; attempting.

noun try, effort
verb try, make effort

Example sentences :

To attempt it finds no support in the principles of our Constitution.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

As to some of the others, I cannot wonder at any thing they do, or attempt to do, where self is concerned.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

It was not soon that he risked an attempt to please her with a song of his own.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

Those of us who have no form of pietism feel cut off from making the attempt at all.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

And in making this attempt I must write from my own experience.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

To attempt to eliminate fear and retain this concept of God is vain.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

I will attempt no description of the beauties that met them at every turn.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

But by this time Vavasor had resolved to make an attempt to gain his aunt, and so Hester.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

It is in his attempt to explain the mechanism that we believe Weissman fails.
Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke

But any attempt on his part to fathom it only met with cold silence.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Synonyms for attempt

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