say it: uhn-uh-VAY-ling
unavailing is an adjective meaning "producing no result or effect". It carries one recorded sense.
producing no result or effect
“a futile effort”
“the therapy was ineffectual”
“an otiose undertaking”
“an unavailing attempt”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unavailing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.