inutile
See also: innutile
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French inutile, from Middle French, from Latin inutilis. By surface analysis, in- + utile.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editinutile (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
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin inūtilis (“useless”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editinutile (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
editFurther reading
edit- “inutile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin inūtilis, from in- + ūtilis.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editinutile (plural inutili)
- useless, unnecessary, needless
- ineffective
- Synonym: ineffettivo
Antonyms
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editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /iˈnuː.ti.le/, [ɪˈnuːt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈnu.ti.le/, [iˈnuːt̪ile]
Adjective
editinūtile
Middle French
editAdjective
editinutile m or f (plural inutiles)
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