unattaining

Adjective

 * 1) That does not lead to attainment
 * 2) * 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;