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Abortive synonyms

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Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
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  1. Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
  2. Lacking substance or worth:
  3. Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless:
failing
Undergoing failure:
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  1. Undergoing failure:
fruitless
Bearing no fruit; barren.
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  1. Bearing no fruit; barren.
  2. Useless; unproductive.
  3. Without results; unprofitable; unsuccessful; vain
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Sentence Examples

  • The invasion of the Goths and the death of Decius put an end to the abortive attempt.

  • In these instances most of the flowers were abortive, but a few were fertile, which he attributes to the dust of the apices having been wafted by the wind from other plants.

  • The attempt proved abortive; Meagher was arrested in August, and in October was tried for high treason before a special commission at Clonmel.

  • The spreading branches have a tendency to assume a tortuous form, owing to the central shoots becoming abortive, and the growth thus being continued laterally, causing a zigzag development, more exaggerated in old trees and those standing in From Kotschy, op. cit.

  • These proposals were rendered abortive by the unflinching use of the queen's prerogative.

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