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Feb. 26, 2015
Word of the Day

inutile Audio Pronunciation
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\in-YOO-til\
adjective
1. of no use or service.
Quotes
There was an elevated sluiceway, part wood, part concrete: porous, pocked, inutile, filled with silt and more debris.
-- John McPhee, "A Reporter at Large: Minihydro," The New Yorker, February 23, 1981
Origin
Inutile comes from the Latin term ūtilis meaning "useful" with the negative prefix in-. It entered English in the 1400s.
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