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单词 inutile
释义

Definition of inutile in English:

inutile

adjective ɪnˈjuːtɪlinˈyo͞oˌtīl
formal
  • Useless; pointless.

    无用的;无使用价值的,无意义的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Starting from the ground up is the way 90 percent of the coaches in this league made it as far as they have, and that's one way to weed out the diligent from the inutile.
    • Later, he would denounce the war as inutile.
    • The engine can even be inutile in an instant if it overheats and all other auto parts under the hood can also be damaged.
    • Or it may provide a site that, with the impetus of competition and showmanship, encourages inutile and obsessive activity.
    Synonyms
    futile, pointless, purposeless, impractical, vain, in vain, to no purpose, to no avail, unavailing, bootless, nugatory, hopeless, unusable, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, fruitless, unprofitable, profitless, unproductive, unachievable, sisyphean

Derivatives

  • inutility

  • noun ˌɪnjʊˈtɪlətiɪnjuˈtɪlədi
    formal
    • Your Honours have put to my learned friend most of what I would say under that, apart from the inutility of making an order, bearing in mind the nature of the power under section 417.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If we are going to look at the spectrum, we should look at the whole spectrum, one of which is the relative inutility on many occasions of defamation act.
      • The 1952 Act takes the form, so far as grounds of revocation are concerned, of setting out an exhaustive list of possible grounds, including want of novelty, inutility and so on.
      • What should have been a useful and informed discourse ends up as a parade of pretentious inutility.
      • It is, however, subject to numerous limitations which are testimony to its inutility.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inutilis, from in- 'not' + utilis 'useful'.

Definition of inutile in US English:

inutile

adjectiveinˈyo͞oˌtīl
formal
  • Useless; pointless.

    无用的;无使用价值的,无意义的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Later, he would denounce the war as inutile.
    • The engine can even be inutile in an instant if it overheats and all other auto parts under the hood can also be damaged.
    • Or it may provide a site that, with the impetus of competition and showmanship, encourages inutile and obsessive activity.
    • Starting from the ground up is the way 90 percent of the coaches in this league made it as far as they have, and that's one way to weed out the diligent from the inutile.
    Synonyms
    futile, pointless, purposeless, impractical, vain, in vain, to no purpose, to no avail, unavailing, bootless, nugatory, hopeless, unusable, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, fruitless, unprofitable, profitless, unproductive, unachievable, sisyphean

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inutilis, from in- ‘not’ + utilis ‘useful’.

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