inutile

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Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theocritus speaks of συκινοι ανδρες, useless men; Horace, "Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum;" and Juvenal, "Sterilis mala robora ficus."

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

There is a lot of inutile talk about "significant form" by propagandists of the New Æsthetic.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

But Maudit soit à jamais rêveur inutile, Qui voulut, le premier, dans sa stupidité, S'éprenant d'un problème insoluble et stérile, Aux choses de l'amour mêler l'honnêteté.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James