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See also: innutile
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French inutile, from Middle French, from Latin inutilis. By surface analysis, in- utile.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inutile (comparative more inutile, superlative most inutile)
- (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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin inūtilis (“useless”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inutile (plural inutiles)
- useless, unnecessary, pointless
- Synonyms: superfétatoire, superflu, vain
- Antonyms: utile, nécessaire, indispensable
Usage notes
[edit]- Not to be confused with inutilisable (“unusable”).
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “inutile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin inūtilis, from in- ūtilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inutile (plural inutili)
- useless, unnecessary, needless
- ineffective
- Synonym: ineffettivo
Antonyms
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /iˈnuː.ti.le/, [ɪˈnuːt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈnu.ti.le/, [iˈnuːt̪ile]
Adjective
[edit]inūtile
Middle French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inutile m or f (plural inutiles)
Antonyms
[edit]Descendants
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