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单词 unavailing
释义
unavailing
adjective
formalorliterary
uk
/ˌʌn.əˈveɪ.lɪŋ/us
/ˌʌn.əˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
When anattemptto do something is unavailing, it isunsuccessfulor has nopositiveeffect:
徒劳的，无成果的
Diplomaticeffortsat peace-making have sofarprovedunavailing.调停争端的外交努力到目前为止被证明是徒劳的。
Synonyms
abortiveformal
fruitless
futile
ineffectualformal
unsuccessful
Opposite
successful
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not producing a desired result
  • unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful.
  • failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product.
  • badSales have been really bad this quarter.
  • fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway.
  • unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolous
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • moon around
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
  • unviability
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
(Definition ofunavailingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunavailing

unavailing
But the retreat isunavailing: unawareness, like deafness, implies a defect, and we do not generally assume that operatic characters are defective.
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Howeverunavailingit might appear in retrospect, this view was not without foundation.
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But since the initial question does not make (or at least does not need to make) any claim of desert, this answer seemsunavailing.
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All their efforts to row to shore wereunavailing.
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Plans for a new edition in 1970 provedunavailing, and the book has long been virtually unobtainable.
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Galland writes with a certain terse wit, often at the expense ofunavailingpapal efforts to exercise any effective control over other powers.
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It is a mistake to keep looking far new ideas and methods continually as if the old methods were necessarily completelyunavailing.
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I have considerable sympathy with hisunavailingeffort to get away from lawyers.
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I am sorry to tell him that they have beenunavailing, and we have had no response to them whatever.
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But why should it be anunavailingregret?
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Instead of speaking with legitimate pride of his achievement-he spoke of it in language ofunavailingregret.
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At the end of the day, whatever help we give it will be largelyunavailingunless there is confidence, and unless there is continued expansion.
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Without these three, all the expert business management in the world will be quiteunavailing.
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Sadly, it felt that its efforts to promote those objectives had beenunavailingand that its mission was a failure.
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We greatly regret that these various appeals should have provedunavailing.
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