Meaning

1 senses
  1. Fruitless, futile, useless.

    vergeblich, nutzlos, unbrauchbar

    даре́мнийdarémnyj, ма́рнийmárnyj

More definitions
  • producing no result or effect

Examples

2 sentences
  1. All efforts have been unavailing.

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  2. By this I reached the roof-top, whence in vain / the luckless Teucrians hurled their unavailing rain.

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Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fruitless, futile, useless:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fruitless, futile, useless:

Origin

From un- + availing.

From un- + availing.

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Forms

more unavailing, most unavailing
Comparativemore unavailing Lesson
Superlativemost unavailing Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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