Unavailing

Quick meaning: Unavailing is an adjective meaning Fruitless, futile, useless.

Meaning

Fruitless, futile, useless.

Example Sentences

During the next ten years, efforts to secure support for extending the railway south of Hawick were unavailing.

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

Synonyms for unavailing

Depending on context, synonyms include futile, otiose, ineffectual, useless.

Related Words

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