OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 12081

nugatory

/ˈn(j)uːɡətɔɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
insignificante
Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory.
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…
ineficaz
Ineffective, invalid or futile.
Even among the most experienced and discriminating of men, she rarely allowed the élite of the high-born or distinguished to escape her temporary allurements, so that she was the a…
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…