Nugatory Definition

no͝ogə-tôrē, nyo͝o-
adjective
Trifling; worthless.
Webster's New World
Not operative; invalid.
Webster's New World
Of a law or a contract, that it is unenforceable.
Webster's New World Law

(law) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.

Wiktionary
(computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
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Origin of Nugatory

  • Latin nūgātōrius from nūgātor trifler from nūgārī to trifle from nūgae jokes

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin nūgātōrius.

    From Wiktionary

Nugatory Sentence Examples

  • We may be forced to conclude that the interest of the whole affair, so far as authentic history is concerned, is really nugatory, and that the romantic imagination has created a mystery in a fact of no importance.

  • The reserve, therefore, that it was abstraction and not a decomposing that was in question remained to the admirers of his logic quite nugatory.

  • The most comprehensive policy wording in the world can be rendered nugatory by a wrong move once a claim comes in.

  • The later examples of the Politicus show that the permission of three or more coordinate species is not nugatory, and that the precept of dichotomy is merely in order to secure as little of a saltus as possible; to avoid e.g.

  • It granted, manhood suffrage, it is true, but hedged with so many qualifying conditions and complicated with so elaborate a system of plural voting as to make its effect nugatory.

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