Word.ws English Dictionary

unavailingly

UK/ʌnəˈveɪlɪŋli/

unavailingly adverb: in an unavailing manner; without successful results; to no avail.

Adverb

unavailingly (comparative more unavailingly, superlative most unavailingly)

  1. In an unavailing manner; without successful results; to no avail.
    • The Shepperton guns spoke this time unavailingly.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 104
    • With her own dried tongue, she bent to moisten into relaxation its indrawn blue lips, and breathing on the clenched, congested hands, tried as unavailingly to lessen their terrible tension.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 281

Antonyms of unavailingly

Forms of unavailingly

comparativemore unavailingly
superlativemost unavailingly

Origin of unavailingly

From unavailing + -ly.

Questions about unavailingly

What does unavailingly mean?
Unavailingly means in an unavailing manner; without successful results; to no avail.
What part of speech is unavailingly?
Unavailingly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce unavailingly?
Unavailingly is pronounced /ʌnəˈveɪlɪŋli/ (UK).

Words near unavailingly in the dictionary

  1. unavailableness
  2. unavailables
  3. unavailably
  4. unavailed
  5. unavailing
  6. unavailingly
  7. unavailingness
  8. unavaricious
  9. unavariciously
  10. unavengeable
  11. unavenged

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unavailingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unavailingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unavailingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.