Unavailing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unavailing \Unavailing\
     Ineffective in achieving the desired result; ineffectual;
     futile; of no use; useless; pointless.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  unavailing
       adj : producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the
             therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an
             unavailing attempt" [syn: {futile}, {ineffectual}, {otiose}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "unavailing":
     abortive, aimless, barren, bootless, counterproductive, effete,
     empty, etiolated, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, fruitless, futile,
     impotent, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual,
     inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, meaningless, no go, nugacious,
     nugatory, of no force, of no use, pointless, purposeless, sterile,
     superfluous, unavailable, unproductive, useless, vain