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Nugatory vs Inconsequential - What's the difference?

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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)
  • Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
  • * 1872 ,
  • 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 .
  • Ineffective, invalid or futile.
  • * 1792 ,
  • 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 .
  • (legal) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
  • * 1819 , (17 U.S. 316)
  • 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 .
  • (computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
  • inconsequential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no consequence, not consequential, of little importance.
  • You will never know the exact atomic time when you started reading this phrase; of course, that's inconsequential .

    Synonyms

    * unimportant * negligible * trivial * trifling * See also

    Derived terms

    * inconsequentiality * inconsequentially * inconsequentialness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something unimportant; something that does not matter.