Unavailing
[ʌnə'veɪlɪŋ] or [,ʌnə'velɪŋ]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Ineffectual, fruitless, useless, bootless, abortive, vain, futile, inept, nugatory, to no purpose.
Typed by Aldo
Definition
adj. not availing or of no avail or effect: useless.—n. Unavailabil′ity.—adj. Unavail′able not available.—adv. Unavail′ingly.
Edited by Guthrie
Examples
- Appropriate, but unavailing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Arthur Clennam had made his unavailing expedition to Calais in the midst of a great pressure of business. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- His efforts to capture the city, or the high ground north of it, were necessarily unavailing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Reason came unavailing to such high-wrought feelings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was a subject, in short, on which reflection would be long indulged, and must be unavailing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were unavailing for a long time, but ultimately successful; and he went back with her to France. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- About half-past one the fleet withdrew, seeing their efforts were entirely unavailing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And Rebecca, as we have said, wisely determined not to give way to unavailing sentimentality on her husband's departure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I fancy, even already, that unavailing attendance on delays and evasions has made you something less elastic than you used to be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The local influence of my family was quite unavailing to obtain any employment in that department, for a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was unavailing; he extended his arm towards them, and made another violent effort. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Guthrie