Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inutility

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-util-i-ty
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Uncountable

noun

Unprofitableness.

Uncountable

noun

Something of no use.

Countable

Example Sentences

"But I will hope better things for young Robert's sake; that he will learn something more important than that most useless of all inutilities, the forging of hexameters and pentameters […]"
"A hideous account of a hanging, drawing, and quartering had first attracted him to it; but later he discovered the book (Curiosities of Literature was its name) full of the finest confused feeding—such as forgeries and hoaxes, Italian literary societies, religious and scholastic controversies of old when men (even that most dreary John Milton, of Lycidas) slanged each other, not without dust and heat, in scandalous pamphlets; personal peculiarities of the great; and a hundred other fascinating inutilities."

Etymology

From in- + utility, from Latin inutilitas.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in

Usage

Inflected Forms

inutilities (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

disutility

Synonyms

disutility inutility unusability uselessness unusefulness

Antonyms

utility

Questions

What does inutility mean?: Uselessness.
Where does inutility come from?: From in- + utility, from Latin inutilitas.

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