unattaining

unattaining

English

Etymology

un- +‎ attaining

Adjective

unattaining (comparative more unattaining, superlative most unattaining)

1. That does not lead to attainment
   • 1 December 1890, William Watson, Ireland:

     There she clutches at illusions, and she seeks the phantom goal

     With the unattaining passion that consumes the unsleeping soul:

     And calamity enfolds her, like the shadow of a ban,

     And the niggardness of Nature makes the misery of man;