unavailing

Speech parts

1. unavailing - Adjective

2. unavailing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

producing no result or effect

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

futile ineffectual meaningless otiose needless sisyphean empty unsuccessful inadequate hollow ineffective trivial useless inefficient impractical
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Antonyms

wow class important successful capital amazing
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Phrases with the word

be unavailing

Examples

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star. Logan Pearsall Smith

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets. Charles Dickens

We read of strong men bowed down with woe, weeping as women weep, turning homewards in the hear-sickness of unavailing search, or with a certainty worse than suspense. Josephine Butler

The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness That empty the heart. William Butler Yeats

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. Thomas Carlyle

a futile effort Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

unavailableness unavailably unavailed unavailingly unavailingness unavaricious