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Examples of abortive in a Sentence
an abortive attempt to recover the sunken pirate ship
Recent Examples of abortive from the Web
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That document cites only the abortive 2013 drug and gun bust that led to Walker and Farrell each pleading guilty to conduct unbecoming an officer.
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Various external forces coincided to make Kuma’s flirtation with monumental excrescences an abortive one.
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Which is where that abortive Mets spring training visit comes in.
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Still, the abortive nomination even cost Dourson and his wife Martha personally.
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Also in jail is Hisham Geneina, a former state auditor who joined one of the abortive campaigns to challenge Mr Sisi.
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The media have whipped themselves into a nationalist frenzy almost as big as the one that followed an abortive coup in 2016.
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As a result, these data don’t offer insight into emotional suffering relative to all post-abortive women as a group.
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Among major legislative efforts of the past quarter-century, only last spring’s abortive attempt to repeal Obamacare has polled worse.
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abortive Synonyms
Synonyms
barren, bootless, empty, fruitless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, otiose, profitless, unavailing, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain;
Antonyms
deadly, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, potent, productive, profitable, successful, virtuous;
Near Antonyms
applicable, feasible, functional, practicable, practical, realizable, usable (also useable), workable;
Related Words
hollow, idle, meaningless, pointless, valueless, worthless;
hopeless, impossible, lost, no-win, unattainable;
Phrases
in vain, no dice, not worth the candle, of no avail;
ABORTIVE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of abortive for English Language Learners
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: failing to achieve the desired result : not successful
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of abortive
- abortive treatment of pneumonia
- an abortive case of poliomyelitis
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