avail
Be of use
Avail centers on usefulness or benefit.
Most often it appears in negative constructions: Their efforts were to no avail.
The phrase avail yourself of means to make use of something: Please avail yourself of our facilities.
As a noun, avail means advantage or benefit: of little avail, of what avail is wealth without health?
The word sounds formal and somewhat old-fashioned in most contexts.
Functional worth or purpose
- benefitAdvantage or gain
- advantageFavorable position or circumstance
- usePut into service
- serviceAid or maintenance
help · purpose · efficacy · functionality · practicality · effectiveness · worth · profit
Likelihood of occurrence
- openingGap or start
- possibilityState of being achievable
- optionAvailable course of action
- occasionNotable event or moment
moment · window · access · recourse · resort · means · remedy · resource
Right to enter
- obtainabilityQuality of being acquirable
- reachabilityState of being contactable
- approachabilityQuality of seeming welcoming
- attainabilityCapacity to be reached
utility
Functional worth or purpose
service · help · purpose · efficacy · functionality · practicality · effectiveness · worth · profit · good
chance
Likelihood of occurrence
- openingGap or start
- possibilityState of being achievable
- optionAvailable course of action
occasion · moment · window · access · recourse · resort · means · remedy · resource · alternative
access
Right to enter
- obtainabilityQuality of being acquirable
- reachabilityState of being contactable
- approachabilityQuality of seeming welcoming
availuselessness
Lack of practical value
futility · worthlessness · inutility · pointlessness · ineffectiveness
- to no availWithout achieving the goal
- make availableGrant access to
- update available
- not available
- emotionally available
- not available in your country
available, unavailable, availability, avails, unavailability, availed, availing, unavailing