unattaining

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ attaining. === Adjective === unattaining (comparative more unattaining, superlative most unattaining) 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;