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Definition: Unavailing |
UnavailingAdjective1. Producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unavailing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UnavailingSynonyms: futile (adj), ineffectual (adj), otiose (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual, ineffective, inconsequential, trifling, nugatory; inefficient; (impotent); insufficient; unavailing; (useless); of no effect. |
Inutility | Adjective: useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative; inadequate; (insufficient); inservient, unsubservient; inept, inefficient; (impotent); of no avail; (use); ineffectual; (failure); incompetent; (unskillful); " stale, flat and unprofitable"; superfluous; (redundant); dispensable; thrown away; (wasted); abortive; (immature). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unavailing |
| English words defined with "unavailing": Boteless ♦ futile ♦ ineffectual ♦ otiose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unavailing": Walking. (references) |
| "Unavailing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unavailing" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unavailing | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unavailing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i kotë (feckless, footling, futile, good for nothing, needless, otiose, pointless, useless, vain, wanton, worthless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا ينفع, لا غناء فيه, لا طائل تحته (futile, useless), غير مجد (ineffective, ineffectual, wan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нерезултатен, неефикасен (ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inoperative, no good), напразен (idle, nugatory, pointless, unprofitable, useless, vain), безполезен (baubling, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, inutile, naught, needless, no good, nugatory, otiose, pointless, sorry, superfluous, trashy, unhelpful, up the spout, useless, vain, void, worthless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neúèinný (effectless, ineffective, inoperative, pointless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vain (unsuccessful), inutile (unnecessary), inefficace (unfertile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umsonst (abortively, buckshee, for free, for nothing, free, free of charge, gratis, in vain, to no avail, to no purpose, without success), vergeblich, umsonst, vergeblich (abortive, fruitless, futile, idle, in vain, unavailingly, unsuccessful, unsuccessfully, useless, vain, vainly), nutzlos (abortive, bootless, feckless, fustily, futile, idle, naff, no-account, of no value, sterile, unhelpful, unnecessary, unprofitable, useless, uselessly, vain, valueless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανώφελοσ, ανωφελήσ (futile, in vain, ineffective, profitless, useless, vain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | haszontalan (barren, feckless, fiddling, frivolous, futile, good for nothing, helpless, idle, ineffectual, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, null, otiose, punk, reprobate, unavailable, unhelpful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inutile (bootless, good for nothing, idle, in vain, needless, objectless, pointless, unfit, unnecessary, unsuitable, unusable, useless, vain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn ymmyd (dud), fardailagh (empty, empty of words, frivolous, fruitless, futile, trifling, trivial, vain, vain of hope). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | availingunay vão (abortive, aperture, baubling, bay, empty, fruitless, futile, interspace, needless, nugatory, porthole, span, useless, vain), ineficaz (feckless, forceless, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, nugatory, powerless, unavailable), inútil (abortive, bootless, castaway, empty, fruitless, futile, good-for-nothing, naught, needless, no-go, nugatory, purposeless, rat-trap, sterile, superfluous, supervacaneous, trashy, unavailable, unnecessary, unproductive, unprofitable, useless, vain, worthless), baldado (unsuccessful, vain). (various references) zadarnic (abortive, bootless, fruitless, futile, idle, ineffective, ineffectual, ineffectually, inexpedient, naught, nugatory, otiose, sinful, to no end, unfruitful, unnecessary, useless, vain), inutil (addle, beside the purpose, bootless, effete, excrescent, fruitless, idle, nugatory, pathetic, pathetically, superfluous, unfruitful, unnecessary, unprofitable, useless, uselessly, vain, wasteful, worthless). (various references) бесполезный (abortive, bootless, fatuous, feckless, fiddling, fruitless, futile, good for nothing, idle, inutile, naught, needless, nugatory, of no avail, otiose, unhelpful, unprofitable, useless, valueless, virtueless). (various references) dìomhain (idle, to no purpose). (various references) uzaludan (bootless, futile, ineffective, needless, unfruitful, use: no earthly use, vain, wasted). (various references) inútil (empty, good for nothing, helpless, naught, needless, no go, of no avail, of no use, pointless, profitless, purposeless, unfit, unprofitable, unserviceable, unsuccessful, unsuitable, useless, vain, waste, wasted). (various references) utan resultat (ineffective, without result), gagnlös (bootless, feckless, fruitless, idle, inefficacious, inutile, of no use, otiose, useless, vain), fruktlös (fruitless, unfruitful, unsuccessful), fåfäng (conceited, fruitless, futile, idle, useless, vain). (various references) nafile (futile, no dice, to no end, useless, vain), faydasız (barren, bootless, fruitless, ineffectual, inefficacious, it's no go, it's no use, no good, nugatory, profitless, unobliging, unprofitable, unusable, useless, vain, void), boşuna (empty, for nothing, frantic, gainless, in vain, needless, no dice, no go, no good, of no avail, otiose, to no avail, to no end, unnecessarily, useless, vainly). (various references) некорисний (castaway, dud, fiddling, fruitless, inutile, needless, nugatory, of no avail, of no use, otiose, valueless, without avail). (various references) vô tác dụng (otiose), vô ích (bootless, excrescent, futile, inutile, naught, needless, unhelpful, unnecessary, unrequired, unwanted, useless, vainly). (various references) annhyciannol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unavailing": unavailingly, unavailingness, unavailingnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Unavailing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Unavail, unavailling, unvailing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unavailing" (pronounced u'nuvā"ling) |
| 5 | -v ā" l i ng | prevailing, surveilling, unveiling, veiling. |
| 4 | -ā" l i ng | ailing, assailing, bailing, baling, curtailing, derailing, detailing, entailing, failing, flailing, Grayling, hailing, inhaling, jailing, mailing, nailing, railing, regaling, sailing, scaling, tailing, trailing, unfailing, wailing, whaling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unwilling, waffling, waggling, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-i-l-n-n-u-v" | |
-2 letters: anviling, availing, iguanian, inguinal, unliving. | |
-3 letters: alining, anginal, nailing, vaginal, vailing, valuing, vialing. | |
-4 letters: agnail, ailing, alanin, angina, anilin, annual, annuli, gavial, guanin, iguana, inulin, laguna, laving, lignin, lingua, lining, living, lungan, nilgai, nilgau, unnail, vagina, vining. | |
-5 letters: aalii, again, alang, algin, align, annal, annul, anvil, avail, avian, guava, lagan, lanai, lauan, liana, liang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-i-l-n-n-u-v" | |
+2 letters: unavailingly. | |
+4 letters: unavailingness. | |
+5 letters: unimaginatively. | |
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