nugatory
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Of no value or importance; trifling or futile.
The concessions offered were so nugatory that the union rejected them outright.
Law adjective
Of no legal force or practical effect; futile or worthless.
An interpretation rendering the indemnity nugatory should be rejected in favour of one giving it real content.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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