Nugatory

Quick meaning: Nugatory is an adjective meaning Trivial, trifling or of little importance.

Meaning

Trivial, trifling or of little importance.

More Meanings

1. Ineffective, invalid or futile.
2. (law) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
3. (computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.

Example Sentences

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.

The government’s response has been nugatory, its mean mitigations mostly in loans that only stoke future problems for households: high energy prices are not set to be a brief spike.

Bartolomé de las Casas’s critique of the cruelty of the Conquistadors led to his official appointment as ‘Protector of the Indians’ and to the passage of the New Laws which gave the Indians some nugatory protection.

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.

Synonyms for nugatory

Depending on context, synonyms include void, invalid, worthless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worthless, invalid, void, trivial, little, niggly.

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