Attempt

Noun

 * 1) The action of trying at something.
 * 2) An assault or attack.

Verb

 * 1) To try; make an effort or attempt

Adjectives for Attempt
sincere; valiant; memorable; sympathetic; serious; honest; admirable; successful; elaborate;  ingenious; ambitious; eloquent; careful; kindly; enlightened; reasonable; well-meaning; ill-directed; slow-witted; weak; faltering; feeble; sorry; slightest;  bashful; ineffectual; unavailing; half-hearted; laughable; grotesque; hopeless; vain;  unfortunate; clumsy; futile; stupid; foolish; fruitless; farcical; mock; foolhardy; despairing; inept; pitiful; nugatory; maladroit; murderous; outrageous; mad; disastrous; dreary; infamous; superhuman;  bold; daring; heroic; spectacular; systematic; repeated; definite; organized; long-heralded; vituperative; obvious; belated; freest; picturesque; covert; blind; passionate; abortive; miscarried; unappreciated; curious; numerous; pretentious; early; labored; major; hurried; unsteady; involuntary; extreme; rash; remarkable; creditable; impious; patriotic; rude; youthful; vigorous; embarrassed; misguided; cramp-like; isolated; memorable; inconsiderate; arduous; coquettish; ignoble; forcible; deliberate; laudable; forlorn; torturing; charitable; unconstitutional; wicked; complicated; brutal; discouraging; direct; previous; mimic; exorbitant; murderous; strange;  unorganized; perpetual; chimerical; excellent; traitorous; premature; uncouth; half-satirical; despicable; inauspicious; villainous; experimental; bare.

Verbs for Attempt
acclaim—; afford—; applaud—; commence—; commit—; complete—; constitute—; defeat—; deter from—; discern—; essay—;evade—; fail in—; fall short in—; foil—;glorify—; honor—; indict for—; interpret—; justify—; oppose—; overcome—; put forth—; recognize—; repel—; repudiate—; restrain—;  suffer  from—;   stimulate—;thwart—;   undertake—;  warrant—;  — blinds; —confounds; —triumphs; —wearies;  interrupt.

Adverbs for Attempt
desperately; amateurishly; repeatedly; strenuously; previously; feebly; inadvertently; valiantly; memorably; sincerely; ingeniously; eloquently; reasonably; enlight-enedly; falteringly; ineffectually; unavailingly; half-heartedly; grotesquely; futilely; fruitlessly; farcically; ineptly; maladroitly; murderously; outrageously; odiously; hazardously; disastrously; infamously; superhiimanly; heroically; spectacularly; daringly; systematically; vituperatively; obviously; picturesquely; covertly; abortively; pretentiously; laboriously; unsteadily; involuntarily; creditably; impiously; patriotically; misguidcdiy; memorably; arduously; coquettishly; ignobly; forcibly; laudably; forlornly; charitably; unconstitutionally; brutally;  exorbitantly; prematurely; uncouthly; half-satirically; despicably; inauspiciously; villainously; defectively; suitably; stolidly; unceremoniously; devotedly; cheerfully; intermittently.

Synonyms for Attempt
effort, try, attack, trial, endeavor, essay, undertaking, experiment.

Antonyms for Attempt
certainty, success.

Thesaurus
accept; affair; aim to; approach; assault; assay; assume; attack; attempt to; begin; beginning; bid; buckle to; business; care; chance; commence; commencement; commitment; contract; crack; dare; dare to; deal; effort; embark in; embark upon; endeavor; engage; engage in; engagement; enter on; enter upon; enterprise; essay; experiment; fall into; fall to; fling; gambit; get under way; go; go about; go at; go in for; go into; go upon; hassle; have at; hazard; inaugurate; initiate; initiation; launch forth; launch into; lay about; lick; lift a finger; make an attempt; make an effort; make bold; make free; move; move into; obligation; offer; operation; pains; pitch into; plan; plunge into; presume; pretend; pretend to; proceed to; program; project; proposition; seek; seek to; set about; set at; set forward; set going; set to; shot; shy; stab; start; step; strive; strive to; striving; stroke; strong bid; struggle; study to; tackle; take on; take the liberty; take up; task; tentative; trial; trial and error; trouble; try; try and; try to; turn to; undertake; undertaking; venture; venture on; venture to; venture upon; whack; work