Word Meanings - INOPERATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.

NUGATORY
1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.
TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland.
TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
INEFFECTUALLY
Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
INEFFECTUALNESS
Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
INOPERATIVE
Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
INEFFECTUALITY
Ineffectualness.
INEFFECTUAL
Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient. Pope. The peony root has been much commended, . . . and yet has been by many found ineffectual.