1. Acting to defeat its own purpose
   "it is self-defeating...to ignore the progress of events"

See also: unsuccessful

• ablated
• ablation
• ablative
• ablative absolute
• ablative case
• ablaut
• ablaze
• able
• able seaman
• able-bodied
• able-bodied seaman
• able-bodiedism
• able-bodism
• ableism
• ablepharia
• ablism
• abloom
• ABLS
• ablush
• ablution
• ablutionary
• ably
• ABM
• Abnaki
• abnegate