Failure to accomplish an aim or purpose; lack of success.
they express regret for their non-success in filling the vacant presidential chair
Example sentencesExamples
Is Heather right about the relative non-success of military intervention in other regions?
It will be seen that the non-success of the labor unions is due to perfectly natural causes which are inevitable consequences of the wage system of production.
Their record of non-success is supreme.
As a result of their non-success, in many parts of the country iron works were closed down.
The manager must change the style of play straight away or we're going to be consigned to another season of boredom and non-success.
People always write about my instant success, but there were a lot of years of non-success.
When you look at all the archives you soon see the disgusting situation of non-success for the betterment of farmers.
In regard to your recent coverage regarding the firm's lack of business, the reason for its non-success is simple in the extreme!
The last shop I went into had a surprisingly good section of skirts so within 10 minutes (after two hours of non-success) I had bought two lovely skirts and a necklace.
Most would-be inventors try to tackle something about which they know little or nothing, and in nine cases out of ten this is the secret of their non-success.
Synonyms
lack of success, non-fulfilment, abortion, miscarriage, defeat, frustration, collapse, foundering, misfiring, coming to nothing, falling through