All efforts have been unavailing.
Source: tatoeba (1585211)
Unavailing
Synonyms for "unavailing" (51 found)
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Related words (25)
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Translations
29 translations across 11 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄπρᾱκτος adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безполезен adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- безрезултатен adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Estonian
1 entries- asjatu adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Finnish
3 entries- hyödytön adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- tulokseton adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- turha adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
French
4 entries- futile adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- infructueux adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- inutile adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- vain adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
German
4 entries- nutzlos adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- umsonst adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- unbrauchbar adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- vergeblich adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Italian
3 entries- futile adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- inefficace adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- infruttuoso adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dìomhain adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Spanish
4 entries- fútil adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- infructuoso adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- inservible adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- inútil adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Swedish
3 entries- fruktlös adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- fåfäng adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- resultatlös adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Ukrainian
2 entries- даре́мний adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
- ма́рний adj (fruitless, futile, useless)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
By this I reached the roof-top, whence in vain / the luckless Teucrians hurled their unavailing rain.
Source: tatoeba (6831102)
Weeping she spake, with unavailing woe, / and poured her sorrow to the winds, when lo, / in sight comes Helenus, with fair array, / and hails his friends, and hastening to bestow / glad welcome, toward his palace leads the way; / but tears and broken words his mingled thoughts betray.
Source: tatoeba (7052951)
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!
Source: wiktionary
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