| 词汇 | unavailing |
| 释义 | unavailing adjective formal or literaryuk /ˌʌn.əˈveɪ.lɪŋ/ us /ˌʌn.əˈveɪ.lɪŋ/ When an attempt to do something is unavailing, it is unsuccessful or has no positive effect: 徒劳的，无成果的 Diplomatic efforts at peace-making have so far proved unavailing.调停争端的外交努力到目前为止被证明是徒劳的。 Synonyms abortiveformal fruitless futile ineffectualformal unsuccessful Opposite successful not producing a desired result unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful. failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product. badSales have been really bad this quarter. fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway. unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful. Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unsuccessful (people and things) Examples of unavailingunavailing But the retreat is unavailing: unawareness, like deafness, implies a defect, and we do not generally assume that operatic characters are defective. However unavailing it might appear in retrospect, this view was not without foundation. But since the initial question does not make (or at least does not need to make) any claim of desert, this answer seems unavailing. All their efforts to row to shore were unavailing. Plans for a new edition in 1970 proved unavailing, and the book has long been virtually unobtainable. Galland writes with a certain terse wit, often at the expense of unavailing papal efforts to exercise any effective control over other powers. It is a mistake to keep looking far new ideas and methods continually as if the old methods were necessarily completely unavailing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have considerable sympathy with his unavailing effort to get away from lawyers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sorry to tell him that they have been unavailing, and we have had no response to them whatever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But why should it be an unavailing regret? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of speaking with legitimate pride of his achievement-he spoke of it in language of unavailing regret. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the end of the day, whatever help we give it will be largely unavailing unless there is confidence, and unless there is continued expansion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without these three, all the expert business management in the world will be quite unavailing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sadly, it felt that its efforts to promote those objectives had been unavailing and that its mission was a failure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We greatly regret that these various appeals should have proved unavailing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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