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inutility

noun

Etymology

From in- + utility, from Latin inutilitas.

  1. derived from ūtilitās
  2. derived from utilite
  3. inherited from utilite
  4. prefixed as inutility — “in + utility”

Definitions

  1. Uselessness.

  2. Unprofitableness.

  3. Something of no use.

    • But I will hope better things for young Robert's sake; that he will learn something more important than that most useless of all inutilities, the forging of hexameters and pentameters […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inutility. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA