unsuccess

unsuccess

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ success.

Noun

unsuccess (countable and uncountable, plural unsuccesses)

1. A lack of success.
   • 1939, W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," lines 58-61:

     With the farming of a verse
     Make a vineyard of the curse,
     Sing of human unsuccess
     In a rapture of distress