Their effort proved abortive.
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Abortive
//əˈbɔɹ.tɪv//
Synonyms for "abortive" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (24)
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1 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
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2 entriesTranslations
95 translations across 18 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐκβόλιμος adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Arabic
2 entries- سقط noun (that which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion)
- سَقْط noun (that which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion)
Bulgarian
1 entries- несполучлив adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Catalan
4 entries- abortiu adj (causing abortion)
- abortiva adj (causing abortion)
- avortiu adj (causing abortion)
- avortiva adj (causing abortion)
Dutch
4 entries- afdrijvend adj (causing abortion)
- gestopt adj (medicine: cutting short)
- rudimentair adj (imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile)
- tevergeefs adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Esperanto
1 entries- aborta adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Finnish
4 entries- abortiivinen adj (imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile)
- abortiivinen adj (causing abortion)
- abortti adj (produced by abortion; born prematurely)
- hyödytön adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
French
4 entries- abortif adj (produced by abortion; born prematurely)
- abortif adj (imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile)
- abortif adj (causing abortion)
- abortif adj (medicine: cutting short)
German
4 entries- Fehl adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- abbrechen adj (medicine: cutting short)
- abgetrieben adj (produced by abortion; born prematurely)
- abortiv adj (causing abortion)
Hungarian
4 entries- abortív adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- abortív adj (imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile)
- abortív adj (causing abortion)
- abortív adj (medicine: cutting short)
Kazakh
3 entries- аяқсыз adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- нәтижесіз adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- сәтсіз adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- abortiv adj (produced by abortion; born prematurely)
- abortiv adj (imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile)
- abortiv adj (causing abortion)
- abortiv adj (medicine: cutting short)
Persian
1 entries- بی نتیجه adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Polish
3 entries- aborcyjny adj (produced by abortion; born prematurely)
- aborcyjny adj (causing abortion)
- nieudany adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Portuguese
4 entries- abortivo adj (produced by abortion; born prematurely)
- abortivo adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- abortivo adj (imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile)
- abortivo adj (causing abortion)
Romanian
1 entries- abortiv noun (medicine that causes abortion)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- izjalovljeno adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- neuspjelo adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- propalo adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Spanish
4 entries- abortivo adj (produced by abortion; born prematurely)
- abortivo adj (causing abortion)
- fracasado adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
- frustrado adj (coming to naught; fruitless)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
This Anglo-Teutonic, castellated, gothized structure must be considered as an abortive production, at once illustrative of bad taste and defective judgment.
Source: tatoeba (11250841)
an abortive child
Source: wiktionary
Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog!
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