unavailing
/ˌʌnəvˈeɪlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!"
- "During the next ten years, efforts to secure support for extending the railway south of Hawick were unavailing."
Etymology
From un- + availing.
Inflected Forms
more unavailing (comparative)
most unavailing (superlative)