Nugatory vs Neophyte - What's the difference?
nugatory | neophyte |
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.
A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
A novice (recent convert), a new convert or proselyte, a new monk.
(Christianity) A name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to those who have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, especially those converts from heathenism or Judaism.
(biology) A plant species recently introduced to an area (in contrast to archaeophyte, a long-established introduced species).
As an adjective nugatory
is trivial, trifling or of little importance.As a noun neophyte is
a beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.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 .