Nugatory vs Inconsequential - What's the difference?
nugatory | inconsequential | Related terms |
Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
* 1872 ,
Ineffective, invalid or futile.
* 1792 ,
(legal) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
* 1819 , (17 U.S. 316)
(computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
Having no consequence, not consequential, of little importance.
As adjectives the difference between nugatory and inconsequential
is that nugatory is trivial, trifling or of little importance while inconsequential is having no consequence, not consequential, of little importance.As a noun inconsequential is
something unimportant; something that does not matter.nugatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory .
- I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier and for restraining the commission of outrages upon the Indians, without which all pacific plans must prove nugatory .
- The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory .
inconsequential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential .