23 October 2016

inutile

[in-yoo-til]

adjective

1. of no use or service.

Origin of inutile

late Middle English Latin
1400-1450; late Middle English < Latin inūtilis. See in-3, utile

Related forms

inutilely, adverb

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Examples from the Web for inutile

Historical Examples

There is a lot of inutile talk about “significant form” by propagandists of the New Æsthetic.
Unicorns
James Huneker

M. France sees and notes many gestures, inutile or tragic, notes them with the enthralling simplicity of a complicated artist.
Egoists
James Huneker

The tune of her life had never sounded so discouragingly faint and inutile.
Visionaries
James Huneker

Next she found the telephone wire cut and the speaking tube battered and inutile.
The Drums Of Jeopardy
Harold MacGrath

As Christy’s plan was not in order, would be inutile, the business of the visitors at the islands was finished.
Fighting for the Right
Oliver Optic

The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.
Melomaniacs
James Huneker

It is true that it would have been inutile, for no incident occurred to put the colonists to any painful trial.
The Secret of the Island
W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne)

Anagram

lie unit

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