Usually means: Insignificant, trifling, of no value.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nugatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nugatory: Merriam-Webster
  3. nugatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nugatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nugatory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nugatory: Vocabulary.com
  7. nugatory: Wordnik
  8. nugatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nugatory: Wiktionary
  10. nugatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nugatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nugatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nugatory: Dictionary.com
  14. nugatory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Nugatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nugatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nugatory: Rhymezone
  18. Nugatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nugatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nugatory: FreeDictionary.org
  21. nugatory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. nugatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nugatory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. nugatory: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. nugatory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. nugatory: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. nugatory: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. nugatory: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nugatory: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nugatory: A Word A Day
  2. nugatory: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nugatory: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
adjective:  Ineffective, invalid or futile.
adjective:  (law) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
adjective:  (computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.

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