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abortive

(əbɔːʳtɪv)
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
[formal]
...an abortive attempt to prevent the current President from taking office.
Synonyms: failed, failing, useless, vain More Synonyms of abortive
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abortive in British English

(əˈbɔːtɪv)
adjective
1. 
failing to achieve a purpose; fruitless
2. 
(of organisms) imperfectly developed; rudimentary
3. 
causing abortion; abortifacient

abortive in American English

(əˈbɔrtɪv)
adjective
1. 
coming to nothing; unsuccessful; fruitless
2.  Biology
arrested in development; rudimentary
3.  Medicine
a. 
causing abortion
b. 
halting a disease process
4.  Obsolete
born prematurely
SIMILAR WORDS:  ˈfutile
Word origin
ME abortif < L abortivus: see abort

Examples of 'abortive' in a sentence
abortive

Recently the firm has been connected with more abortive bids than successes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Their abortive coup was horribly damaging at a time when the party should be swallowing their differences and making an attempt at loyalty and unity.
The Sun (2010)
I asked these three to keep a log of their abortive attempts to contact the mayor's campaign team.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The polls were pushed back from October 11 after an abortive coup but are expected to pass off peacefully.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The threat to giant pandas has been recognised for decades with London Zoo making a series of abortive attempts at breeding the creatures.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

In other languages
abortive

British English: abortive ADJECTIVE
An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
...an abortive attempt to prevent the current President from taking office.
  • American English: abortive
  • Brazilian Portuguese: fracassado
  • Chinese: 失败的
  • European Spanish: frustrado
  • French: avorté
  • German: misslungen
  • Italian: fallito
  • Japanese: 不成功の
  • Korean: 무산된
  • European Portuguese: fracassado
  • Latin American Spanish: frustrado

Chinese translation of 'abortive'

abortive

(əˈbɔːtɪv) (frm)

adj

  1. [attempt, coup] 夭折的 (yāozhé de)
1 (adjective) 
Definition
failing to achieve its purpose
an abortive attempt to prevent him from taking office
Synonyms
failed
failing
useless
He realised that their money was useless in this country.
vain
They worked all night in a vain attempt to finish on schedule.
unsuccessful
a second unsuccessful operation on his knee
idle
It would be idle to pretend the system is worthless.
ineffective
Reform will continue to be painful and ineffective.
futile
a futile attempt to ward off the blow
fruitless
It was a fruitless search.
unproductive
They are aware much of their time and effort is unproductive.
ineffectual
the well-meaning but ineffectual jobs programs of the past
miscarried
unavailing
a brave but unavailing fight against a terminal illness
bootless
2 (adjective) 
Synonyms
imperfectly developed
stunted
incomplete
rudimentary
a rudimentary backbone called a notochord
Seeuseless

Nearby words of
abortive

  • aborigine
  • abort
  • abortion
  • abortive
  • abound
  • abound with or in something
  • abounding

Synonyms of 'abortive'

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