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Nugatory

//ˈn(j)uːɡətɔɹi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Trivial, trifling or of little importance.

    "In sorrow and disgust, you wander over those multitudinous Books: you dwell in endless regions of the superficial, of the nugatory: to your bewildered sense it is as if no insight into the real heart of Friedrich and his affairs were anywhere to be had."

  2. 2
    Ineffective, invalid or futile.

    "I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier and for restraining the commission of outrages upon the Indians, without which all pacific plans must prove nugatory."

  3. 3
    Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.

    "But these regulations would have been impotent and nugatory, had not the licentious nobles been awed by the sword of the civil power."

  4. 4
    Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of no real value wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nūgātōrius.

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