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Abortive 1100 Words You Need Week 18 Day 1

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Abortive 1100 Words You Need

Abortive 1100 Words You Need

/əˈbɔː.tɪv/ (adj)

describing an attempt or a plan that fails and brings no good result, fruitless, in vain, unsuccessful, failed, futile, unproductive:

Already on the night of the abortive coup Erdoğan called it a “blessing of God,” seeing it as an opportunity to attack the Gülenist opposition. In the immediate aftermath of the failed attempt, 1,684 members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) were dismissed due to alleged connections to the Gülen movement.

Source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/

A suspected suicide bomber, who made an abortive attempt to target a CRPF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway two days ago, was arrested near the Jawahar Tunnel Monday, police said.

Source: https://www.outlookindia.com/

Antonym: prolific, successful, productive

Noun: abortiveness, abortion

Verb: abort

Adverb: abortively

Farsi: مسقط،رشد نکرده ،عقيم ،بى ثمر،بى نتيجه


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