"successless" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more successless [comparative], most successless [superlative]
Etymology: From success + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|success|less}} success + -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} successless (comparative more successless, superlative most successless)
  1. (now rare) Without success; unsuccessful. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-successless-en-adj-~YMZvFK9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -less, Pages with 1 entry
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