nugatory

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Trivial, trifling or of little importance.

   “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.”

2. sıfat Ineffective, invalid or futile.

   “According to these highly-respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying[…]had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man’s own righteousness.”

3. sıfat Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.

   “But these regulations would have been impotent and nugatory, had not the licentious nobles been awed by the sword of the civil power.”

4. sıfat Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.