Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
producing no result or effect;
- Example: "a futile effort"- Example: "the therapy was ineffectual"- Example: "an otiose undertaking"- Example: "an unavailing attempt"[syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unavailing \Unavailing\
Ineffective in achieving the desired result; ineffectual;
futile; of no use; useless; pointless.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unavailing
adj 1: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the
therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an
unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual,
otiose, unavailing]