unavailing

The word “unavailing” has 4 syllables: u-na-vail-ing

It's pronounced as /ˌʌnəˈveɪlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for unavailing?

In the thesaurus, “unavailing” has 44 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for unavailing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for unavailing

  • abortive
  • barren
  • bootless
  • counterproductive
  • empty
  • exhausted
  • fruitless
  • futile
  • hollow
  • hopeless
  • idle
  • impossible
  • impractical
  • in vain
  • inadequate
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • inefficacious
  • insufficient
  • lacking
  • lost
  • meaningless
  • no dice
  • no-win
  • not worth the candle
  • of no avail
  • on a treadmill
  • otiose
  • pointless
  • profitless
  • to no avail
  • to no effect
  • to no purpose
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • unattainable
  • unproductive
  • unprofitable
  • unsuccessful
  • useless
  • vain
  • valueless
  • wanting
  • worthless

Antonyms for unavailing

Meanings of unavailing

  • adjective
    1. Fruitless, futile, useless.

Example Sentences

  • Despite their best efforts, their attempts to negotiate were unavailing, and the two parties could not reach a compromise.
  • The scientists conducted numerous experiments, but all their efforts were unavailing in finding a cure for the rare disease.
  • He made an unavailing attempt to repair the broken vase, but the cracks were too extensive to fix.
  • The lawyer's argument proved to be unavailing in the face of overwhelming evidence presented by the prosecution.
  • She searched frantically for her lost keys, but her efforts were unavailing as they remained elusive.

On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to unavailing, such as: abortive, adequate, applicable, barren, bootless, counterproductive, deadly.

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Related Words

objectless

  • accidental
  • adventitious
  • aimless
  • any which way
  • arbitrary
  • bits and pieces
  • blind
  • by-the-way
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • catch-as-catch-can
  • chance
  • charitable
  • contingent
  • designless
  • desultory
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • driftless
  • erratic
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fits and starts
  • flighty
  • fluky
  • forgiving
  • fortuitous
  • frivolous
  • goalless
  • haphazard
  • heedless
  • helter-skelter
  • hit-or-miss
  • incidental
  • indecisive
  • indiscriminate
  • indiscriminating
  • irregular
  • irresolute
  • odd
  • pointless
  • promiscuous
  • purposeless
  • random
  • scattered
  • shiftless
  • slapdash
  • spot
  • stray
  • thoughtless
  • unaimed
  • unavailing
  • unconsidered
  • uncritical
  • undemanding
  • undirected
  • undiscriminating
  • unfussy
  • unguided
  • unplanned
  • unpredictable
  • unpremeditated
  • unselective
  • unsystematic
  • vagrant
  • wandering
  • wanton
  • wayward

vain

  • abortive
  • arrogant
  • assumptive
  • assured
  • bad
  • barren
  • base
  • big-headed
  • biggety
  • biggity
  • bigheaded
  • blusterous
  • blustery
  • boastful
  • bombastic
  • bootless
  • braggart
  • bragging
  • braggy
  • bumptious
  • cavalier
  • chaffy
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • chesty
  • cocky
  • complacent
  • conceited
  • condescending
  • confident
  • consequential
  • counterproductive
  • defective
  • deficient
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • disdainful
  • domineering
  • dud
  • duff
  • egocentric
  • egoistic
  • egoistical
  • egotistic
  • egotistical
  • empty
  • fastuous
  • flawed
  • frivolous
  • fruitless
  • futile
  • going nowhere
  • haughty
  • hifalutin
  • high-and-mighty
  • high-handed
  • high-hat
  • highfalutin
  • holier-than-thou
  • hollow
  • hopeless
  • huffy
  • idle
  • imperfect
  • imperious
  • important
  • impossible
  • in vain
  • in vicious circle
  • inadequate
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • inefficacious
  • inferior
  • inflated
  • insignificant
  • insufficient
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lofty
  • lordly
  • lost
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • masterful
  • meaningless
  • misleading
  • narcissistic
  • no dice
  • no-good
  • no-win
  • not a prayer
  • not worth the candle
  • nugatory
  • null
  • of no avail
  • on a treadmill
  • ostentatious
  • otiose
  • overconfident
  • overweening
  • paltry
  • patronizing
  • peremptory
  • petty
  • pleased with oneself
  • pointless
  • pompous
  • pontifical
  • presuming
  • presumptuous
  • pretentious
  • prideful
  • profitless
  • proud
  • puffed up
  • puny
  • second-rate
  • self-adulatory
  • self-affected
  • self-applauding
  • self-asserting
  • self-assertive
  • self-assured
  • self-centered
  • self-conceited
  • self-confident
  • self-congratulatory
  • self-contented
  • self-dramatizing
  • self-engrossed
  • self-glorifying
  • self-gratulatory
  • self-important
  • self-opinionated
  • self-promoting
  • self-satisfied
  • selfish
  • senseless
  • shuck
  • slight
  • smug
  • snobbish
  • snobby
  • snooty
  • sterile
  • stuck-up
  • substandard
  • supercilious
  • superior
  • swaggering
  • swellheaded
  • swollen-headed
  • time-wasting
  • toploftical
  • toplofty
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • unacceptable
  • unattainable
  • unavailing
  • unimportant
  • unnotable
  • unproductive
  • unprofitable
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsuccessful
  • uppish
  • uppity
  • useless
  • vainglorious
  • valueless
  • void
  • wanting
  • worthless

abortive

failed

failing

  • acting up
  • blemish
  • blind spot
  • blot
  • bombing
  • breaking
  • breaking down
  • chagrining
  • cheating
  • collapsing
  • coming a cropper
  • coming to grief
  • coming up empty
  • corruption
  • crashing
  • cratering
  • crumbling
  • cutting out
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debilitated
  • decadent
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • deceiving
  • declining
  • defaulting
  • defeated
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficient
  • degenerate
  • degenerating
  • degraded
  • deluding
  • demerit
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • depravity
  • dereliction
  • deteriorating
  • disappointing
  • discontenting
  • disenchanting
  • disgruntling
  • disillusioning
  • displeasing
  • disregarding
  • dissatisfying
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • distressing
  • drawback
  • drooping
  • dying
  • dying on the vine
  • effete
  • emaciating
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • error
  • evil
  • fading
  • failure
  • faint
  • falling flat
  • falling short
  • fault
  • feeble
  • feet of clay
  • fizzling
  • flagging
  • flaming out
  • flaw
  • flopping
  • floundering
  • flunking
  • foible
  • folding
  • forgetting
  • foundering
  • frail
  • frailty
  • giving out
  • going
  • going under
  • ignoring
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • imperfection
  • imploding
  • inadequate
  • infirmity
  • insufficient
  • jamming
  • lagging
  • languid
  • languishing
  • laying an egg
  • letting down
  • malfunctioning
  • minus
  • miscarriage
  • miscarrying
  • misfiring
  • misfortune
  • missing
  • missing out on
  • mocking
  • neglecting
  • nit
  • omitting
  • overlooking
  • overpassing
  • overrefined
  • overripe
  • passing over
  • precious
  • pretermitting
  • rotting
  • running down
  • sagging
  • sapped
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • self-destructing
  • short
  • shortcoming
  • shy
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • sinking
  • skidding
  • skipping
  • sliding
  • slighting
  • slipping
  • slumping
  • soft
  • soft spot
  • spot
  • sputtering
  • stain
  • stalling
  • striking out
  • struggling
  • tanking
  • unavailing
  • unprosperous
  • unsuccessful
  • unsufficient
  • unthriving
  • upsetting
  • vain
  • vice
  • waning
  • want
  • wanting
  • washed-up
  • washing out
  • wasted
  • weak
  • weak point
  • weakened
  • weakening
  • weakness
  • wearing out
  • wheezing
  • wickedness
  • wilting
  • wimpy
  • withering
  • yielding

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