unavailingly
- adverb
- /ˌʌnəˈveɪlɪŋli/
:
sin éxito
- Judy asks to be given credit at least for originality, but Henry counters with a list of still other Antigones that have been submitted to him (unavailingly) during his career: one on the McCarthy hearings, one on the civil rights movement by a black student, and two or three on Vietnam.
Examples
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After multiple attempts to fix the leak, we searched unavailingly for any solution to the problem.
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I knew the door was unbolted; though it was fitted with brackets for a bolt, I had searched unavailingly for the bolt itself before retiring.
Fiction book (1991) -
Because no voting formula is likely to guarantee fairness, none is likely to eliminate differences among elected officials or prevent them from influencing candidate selection: a point made unavailingly in the party congress debate preceding the June 1996 change in procedure.
Academic text (1997) -
Despite their efforts to resolve the disagreement, they spoke unavailingly, and the issue remained unresolved.
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She tried unavailingly to convince her friends to join her on the trip, but they all had other plans.
Synonyms
108
3.7
Without success despite trying to do something
31
3.0
In a way that does not get the result you wanted
4
3.5
In a way that does not help or make any difference
3
7.4
In a way that does not make a difference
3
4.0
In a way that does not get the result you want
1
6.3
In a way that does not get the result you want
In a way that does not work or help
In a way that fails to reach the goal
Antonyms
How Effectively
Surface Forms
Morphology
unavailingly = unavailing (semi-transparent) = un + avail + ing + ly
The adverb is formed in the regular way from the adjective 'unavailing' with the suffix -ly.
Etymology
Unavailingly breaks into un- 'not' and avail 'to help' or 'be of use', and it is the opposite of available. So, to do something unavailingly is to try but 'not succeed' or to act 'without success'.