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[ adjective ] producing no result or effect
Synonyms Examples "a futile effort" "the therapy was ineffectual" "an otiose undertaking" "an unavailing attempt" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)Brooklyn_College is unequivocally Jewish in tone , and efforts to detribalize the college by bringing_in unimpeachably midwestern types on the faculty have been unavailing . Related terms |
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