Unavailing

  • 21unavailing — UK [ˌʌnəˈveɪlɪŋ] / US adjective formal not successful …

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  • 22unavailing — /ʌnəˈveɪlɪŋ / (say unuh vayling) adjective ineffectual; useless. –unavailingly, adverb …

  • 23unavailing — adj. not availing; achieving nothing; ineffectual. Derivatives: unavailingly adv …

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  • 24abortive attack — unavailing offensive, ineffectual assault, failed attack …

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  • 25unavailingly — unavailing ► ADJECTIVE ▪ achieving little or nothing. DERIVATIVES unavailingly adverb …

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  • 26useless — uselessly, adv. uselessness, n. /yoohs lis/, adj. 1. of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him. 2. without useful qualities; of no practical good: a useless person; a useless gadget …

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  • 27futile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ineffectual, vain, idle, useless. See uselessness, hopelessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [To no purpose] Syn. vain, unavailing, useless, in vain, fruitless, hopeless, impractical, worthless,… …

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  • 28unsuccessful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unprosperous, unfortunate, unavailing, unproductive. See failure. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. defeated, disappointed, frustrated, nonsuited, abortive, aborted, disastrous, unprosperous, unproductive …

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  • 29vain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. proud, conceited; futile, fruitless; trivial. See vanity, uselessness, unimportance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Possessing unwarranted self esteem] Syn. proud, arrogant, haughty; see egotistic 2 . 2 …

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  • 30useless — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unserviceable] Syn. worthless, unusable, inutile, ineffectual, expendable, incompetent, of no use, ineffective, inoperative, broken, dysfunctional, counterproductive, inefficient, unprofitable, no damn good*. Ant.… …

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