to no avail
Yielding no results
To no avail means without success or without the desired effect.
The phrase typically follows a description of effort: She searched everywhere, but to no avail.
It emphasizes that despite trying, the outcome was failure or futility.
He pleaded with them to reconsider, to no avail.
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
- pointlessLacking any purpose
- vainExcessively proud or futile
- for nothingAt zero cost
- attemptEffort to accomplish
abortive · lost cause · dead end · wild goose chase · ineffective · useless · futile · unavailing · unsuccessful · disappointment · hopelessness · beating a dead horse · try · unproductive · no dice · come to nothing · frustration · thwarted
to no availsuccessfully
With achievement of aim
effectively · fruitfully · productively · triumphantly · victoriously
to no availusefully
In advantageous manner
advantageously · beneficially · profitably · constructively · meaningfully
value, available, valor, valiant, avail, unavailable, availability, availed, availing