NUGATORY - 8 definitions found
nugatory adj 1: of no real value; "a nugatory law" nugatory 1603, from L. nugatorius "worthless, futile," from nugator (gen. nugatoris) "jester, trifler," from nugari "to trifle," from nug?i (gen. nugarum) "trifles." Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary nugatory ˈnju:ɡətərɪ adj. 1 futile, trifling, worthless. 2 inoperative; not valid. [L nugatorius f. nugari to trifle f. nugae jests] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Nugatory \Nu"ga*to*ry\, a. [L. nugatorius, fr. nugari to trifle, nugae jests, trifles.] 1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. --I. Taylor. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms nugatory a. 1. Trifling, futile, vain, insignificant, trivial, frivolous, worthless. 2. Inoperative, ineffectual, inefficacious, unavailing, useless, bootless, null, to no purpose. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 64 Moby Thesaurus words for "nugatory": NG, airy, asinine, barren, bootless, catchpenny, cheap, counterproductive, effete, empty, etiolated, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, flimsy, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, futile, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hollow, idle, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, junk, junky, light, no-account, no-good, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nugacious, of no force, otiose, shabby, shallow, shoddy, silly, slender, slight, sterile, superficial, trashy, trifling, trite, trivial, unavailing, useless, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, windy, worthless |
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