unavailingly
To no avail
Unavailingly means without success or effect, in a manner that fails to achieve the desired result.
The word is formal and literary: She struggled unavailingly against the current.
It emphasizes futility—effort expended to no purpose.
futility
Incapable of producing results
- vainExcessively proud or futile
- pointlessLacking any purpose
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
- bootlessProducing no result
in vain · uselessly · ineffectually · purposelessly · hopelessly · unprofitably · unsuccessfully · nugatory
futile
Incapable of producing results
bootless · in vain · uselessly · ineffectually · purposelessly · hopelessly · unprofitably · unsuccessfully · nugatory · otiose
effectiveness/productivity of effort
unavailinglyeffectively
In a successful way
successfully · fruitfully · productively · effectually · efficaciously