Nugatory \Nu"ga*to*ry\, a. [L. nugatorius, fr. nugari to trifle,
nugae jests, trifles.]
1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.
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2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.
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If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of
clemency, the very substance of government is made
nugatory. --I. Taylor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nugatory
adj : of no real value; "a nugatory law"
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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