abortive
Cut short unsuccessfully
Abortive describes something that fails to reach completion or achieve its intended result: an abortive coup attempt, abortive negotiations.
The word carries a sense of premature ending—efforts that were cut short before they could succeed.
In medical contexts, abortive refers to halting a disease or condition before it fully develops: abortive treatment for migraines.
Not achieving desired outcome
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
- ineffectiveLacking power to achieve
- futileIncapable of producing results
- thwartedPrevented from succeeding
miscarried · stillborn · unproductive · ineffectual · foiled · botched · bungled · misfired
In simplest possible form
- embryonicAt earliest developmental stage
- immatureNot fully developed
- inchoatePartially formed, undeveloped
- nascentBeginning to develop
unformed · incipient · premature · undeveloped · arrested · stunted · incomplete · imperfect
Pregnancy-ending agent
- contraceptivePregnancy prevention method
- prophylacticMeasure preventing disease or harm
- preventiveMeant to stop trouble
- interceptiveCatching mid-course
unsuccessful
Not achieving desired outcome
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
- ineffectiveLacking power to achieve
- futileIncapable of producing results
thwarted · miscarried · stillborn · unproductive · ineffectual · foiled · botched · bungled · misfired · derailed
rudimentary
In simplest possible form
- embryonicAt earliest developmental stage
- immatureNot fully developed
- inchoatePartially formed, undeveloped
nascent · unformed · incipient · premature · undeveloped · arrested · stunted · incomplete · imperfect · vestigial
abortifacient
Pregnancy-ending agent
- contraceptivePregnancy prevention method
- prophylacticMeasure preventing disease or harm
- preventiveMeant to stop trouble
- futilefutile, useless, pointless, fruitless, vain
- unfinishedincomplete, unfinished, partial, half-formed, underdone
- unfulfilledunfulfilled, unsatisfied, dissatisfied, unmet, incomplete
abortivesuccessful
Having achieved one's aims
fruitful · effective · productive · triumphant · accomplished
abortivecomplete
Lacking nothing, fully done
mature · finished · perfected · ripened · consummated
abortivefruitful
Producing abundant results
productive · fertile · generative · fecund · prolific
- abortion debateConflict over ending pregnancies
- abortion rightsFreedom to terminate pregnancy
- abortion clinicFacility providing pregnancy termination
- abortion lawsStatutes regulating pregnancy termination
- abortion banLaw forbidding pregnancy termination
- abortion pillsDrugs terminating early pregnancy
abortion, antiabortion, abortively, antiabortionist, postabortion