Associations to the word «Unavailing»

Wiktionary

UNAVAILING, adjective. Useless, fruitless, futile

Dictionary definition

UNAVAILING, adjective. Producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats