inutile

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French inutile, from Middle French, from Latin inutilis. By surface analysis, in-utile.

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inutile (comparative more inutile, superlative most inutile)

  1. (obsolete) useless; unprofitable.
    Synonyms: unuseful, unutilizable
    Antonyms: utile; useful
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      wormwood, and the like, [] dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh
    • 1840, John Rogers, Anti-popery: Or, Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural, and Novel, page 191:
      The undermediators are not required, have nothing properly to do, no peculiar duty to perform; but are an unprofitable or inutile set of beings sitting down and looking at each other through want of other occupation.

French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin inūtilis (useless).

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inutile (plural inutiles)

  1. useless, unnecessary, pointless
    Synonyms: superfétatoire, superflu, vain
    Antonyms: utile, nécessaire, indispensable

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin inūtilis, from in- ūtilis.

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  • IPA(key): /iˈnu.ti.le/
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  • Rhymes: -utile
  • Hyphenation: i‧nù‧ti‧le

Adjective

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inutile (plural inutili)

  1. useless, unnecessary, needless
  2. ineffective
    Synonym: ineffettivo

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Latin

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inūtile

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of inūtilis

Middle French

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Adjective

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inutile m or f (plural inutiles)

  1. useless

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