unlikely
beat the odds
nonsuccess
unsucceeding
unsuccessful
successlessness
go nowhere
flat out
midlist
failure
fruitless
done
bootless
sleeveless
vain
futile
in vain
fighting chance
unsuccess
come up from behind
resultless
strike out looking
one strike and you're out
unambitious
ambitionless
slim chance
fat chance
strike out
foolproof
nonfailure
odds-on
unpromising
let the grass grow under one's feet
flop
untriumphing
waterproof
manage
unrecompensable
unsuccessiveness
secure
hope against hope
miss the mark
unfavourableness
unfavorableness
nonconcluding
nonperseverance
push shit uphill
unfulfilling
underperform
unsuccessfully
miss
underachieve
forlorn
come off
underrestrain
to little avail
fail
unminimizable
pull a Homer
mail it in
no screaming hell
inefficacy
copout
ineffectiveness
turn up trumps
unpessimistic
disadvantageous
nonadvantageous
successlessly
even chance
unadvantageous
muddle through
ungainful
pull off
twilight
to no purpose
misfire
nonaversive
unaversive
unsuccessfulness
unthrive
unlast
to no avail
insecure
go down in flames
unimpelled
middling
die on the vine
wankle
languish
second
unbested
gainless

English words for 'Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.'

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