stillborn
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˈstɪlˌbɔrn/
:
fracasado
- Her proposal for a new marketing strategy was stillborn after the board rejected it due to budget constraints.
If if you come at things too arrogantly, then I think you'll have a stillborn collaboration.
- If if you come at things too arrogantly, then I think you'll have a stillborn collaboration.
- It's an idea that's actually stillborn.
Examples
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Called the SMART Act, for State Modernization and Regulatory Transparency, the proposal was stillborn.
Academic text (2007) -
And the airline industry would be stillborn for that reason.
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Small wonder the Central American parliament was stillborn.
Academic text (1993) -
And unless it reaches most of the members, proposed programs of action, no matter how well conceived by the leadership, will be largely stillborn.
Academic text (1992) -
Rather than the birth of socialism, the whole rotten enterprise may be stillborn.
Blog text (17) -
Faith in it will be stillborn if we do not persist in moving it, testing it, and nourishing it in the world by our actions.
Academic text (1995) -
In retrospect, the political liberalization of 1991 was a stillborn transition.
Academic text (1998) -
There is no need to prove that if leasing in agriculture was strangled by the collective farm aristocracy, leasing/buyout in industry was a stillborn invention from the beginning.
Academic text (1991) -
Rather, Arab-Israeli negotiations continue to be crippled, if not stillborn, as a result of the single most toxic issue between the Arab states and Israel—the status of Palestine.
Academic text (2011) -
Despite the initial excitement, their ambitious project was ultimately stillborn, as they lacked the necessary resources to move forward.
Synonyms
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2.9
Not getting the result someone wants
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7.7
It does not produce the result people want
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Etymology
Stillborn is also used for ideas or plans that fail from the start. Think of something 'born' already 'not moving', so a stillborn plan never gets started and is unsuccessful from the start.