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inutility
noun as in disadvantage(s)
Weak matches
- adverse circumstance
- bar
- blocking
- burden
- defect
- deficiency
- deprivation
- detriment
- disability
- discommodity
- drawback
- failing
- fault
- flaw
- fly in the ointment
- hamper
- hardship
- hindrance
- impediment
- imperfection
- imposition
- inadequacy
- inconvenience
- lack
- liability
- limitation
- minus
- nuisance
- objection
- obstacle
- privation
- problem
- restraint
- snag
- stumbling block
- weak point
- weakness
noun as in inability
noun as in incapability
noun as in incompetency
noun as in powerlessness
Example Sentences
If they inculcate virtue, it is that theological virtue whose inutility we have sufficiently shown.
The hypnotist has shown the vanity and Blake the inutility of willing trifles, and black magic its futility.
Yet she couldn't let it go on—this gigantic inutility, this mammoth lack of practical, efficient management.
All persons will be sensible of the inutility of the many expensive ceremonies, which contribute nothing to public felicity.
The inutility of science, written in a merely technical form, is well exemplified in the instance of Cicero.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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