unattempting

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ attempting.

Adjective

unattempting (not comparable)

1. Not making an attempt.
   • quoted in 2015, Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939

     Garvin added: 'Mind you true tragedy, supreme tragedy are not the worst in life, far from it: the squalid morass of unattempting impotence is the stifling of the soul and hope of man. […]