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Stillborn   /stˈɪlbˈɔrn/   Listen
Stillborn

adjective
1.
Failing to accomplish an intended result.  Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful.  "A stillborn plot to assassinate the President"
2.
(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn.



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"Stillborn" Quotes from Famous Books



... etc.; but he was all the while observing. I know not why he persists in his Thee and Thou, which certainly Country Squires did not talk of, except for an occasional Joke, at the time his Poem dates from, 1819: and I warned my Readers in that stillborn Preface to change that form into simple 'You.' If this Book leaves a melancholy impression on you, what then would all his others? Leslie Stephen says his Humour is heavy (Qy is not his Tragedy?), and wonders how Miss Austen could admire him as it appears she did; ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes - Vol. II • Edward FitzGerald


Words linked to "Stillborn" :   unfruitful, dead, abortive


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