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

See also: unsuccessful

• red-backed lemming
• red-backed mouse
• red-backed sandpiper
• red-bellied snake
• red-bellied terrapin
• red-bellied turtle
• red-berried elder
• red-blind
• red-blindness
• red-blooded
• red-breasted merganser
• red-breasted nuthatch
• red-breasted sapsucker
• red-breasted snipe
• red-brown
• red-coated
• red-eyed vireo
• red-faced
• red-flowered
• red-flowered silky oak
• red-fruited
• red-gray
• red-green color blindness
• red-green colour blindness
• red-green dichromacy