abortively
Ending before success
Abortively means in a way that fails to reach completion or achieve its intended result.
An abortively attempted coup collapses before succeeding; an abortively begun project never gets finished.
The word carries a sense of premature termination—something cut short before it could fully develop: The rebellion ended abortively after just three days.
Without achieving intended result
- futilelyIn a fruitless manner
- fruitlesslyWithout achieving the goal
- vainlyWithout achieving purpose
- ineffectuallyWithout producing intended results
unproductively · unavailingly · pointlessly · ineffectively · hopelessly · disastrously · botched · bungled
Before proper time
- abruptlyWithout gradual transition
- suddenlyWithout prior indication
- hastilyIn rushed manner
- precipitatelyWith reckless speed
curtailed · discontinued · halted · suspended · ceased · abandoned · cancelled · arrested
Not to the end
- partiallyTo an incomplete extent
- halfwayAt the midpoint
- unfinishedNot yet complete
- fragmentarilyIn incomplete portions
inconclusively · undeveloped · rudimentarily · sketchily · tentatively · embryonically · truncated · curtailed
unsuccessfully
Without achieving intended result
- futilelyIn a fruitless manner
- fruitlesslyWithout achieving the goal
- vainlyWithout achieving purpose
ineffectually · unproductively · unavailingly · pointlessly · ineffectively · hopelessly · disastrously · botched · bungled · miscarried
prematurely
Before proper time
precipitately · curtailed · discontinued · halted · suspended · ceased · abandoned · cancelled · arrested · stopped
incompletely
Not to the end
- partiallyTo an incomplete extent
- halfwayAt the midpoint
- unfinishedNot yet complete
fragmentarily · inconclusively · undeveloped · rudimentarily · sketchily · tentatively · embryonically · truncated · curtailed · unpolished
abortivelysuccessfully
With achievement of aim
effectively · fruitfully · productively · effectually · triumphantly
abortivelysuccessfully
With achievement of aim
completely · fully · conclusively · thoroughly · consummately