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See definition of inutility on Dictionary.com
  • as indisadvantage(s)
  • as ininability
  • as inincapability
  • as inincompetency
  • as inpowerlessness

synonyms for inutility

  • failure
  • impotence
  • incompetence
  • inefficiency
  • ineptitude
  • lack
  • shortcoming
  • weakness
  • disqualification
  • frailty
  • inadequacy
  • inaptitude
  • incapability
  • incapacity
  • ineffectiveness
  • ineffectualness
  • inefficacy
  • ineptness
  • insufficiency
  • necessity
  • powerlessness
  • unfitness
  • incapacitation

antonyms for inutility

MOST RELEVANT
  • advantage
  • good fortune
  • strong point
  • success
  • ability
  • sufficiency
  • capacity
  • competence
  • skill
  • talent
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How to use inutility in a sentence

If they inculcate virtue, it is that theological virtue whose inutility we have sufficiently shown.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACH
The hypnotist has shown the vanity and Blake the inutility of willing trifles, and black magic its futility.
THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF LOVEREMY DE GOURMONT
Yet she couldn't let it go on—this gigantic inutility, this mammoth lack of practical, efficient management.
PTOMAINE STREETCAROLYN WELLS
All persons will be sensible of the inutility of the many expensive ceremonies, which contribute nothing to public felicity.
GOOD SENSEPAUL HENRI THIRY, BARON D'HOLBACH
The inutility of science, written in a merely technical form, is well exemplified in the instance of Cicero.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTIONVARIOUS
We quarrel with them, not on the score of form so much as on that of inutility and undue contrast of colour.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 57, NO. 356, JUNE, 1845VARIOUS
Some papers which his hand brushed within the safe he pushed aside as though preadvised of their inutility to one of his calling.
THE OAKDALE AFFAIREDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
But the inutility of home vineyards is demonstrated from the cheapness of foreign wines at this time.
NINETEEN CENTURIES OF DRINK IN ENGLANDRICHARD VALPY FRENCH
It was all very clean, but the room conveyed at the first glance an overpowering idea of its own absolute inutility and vanity.
RACHEL RAYANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Count d'Artois soon arrived, and confirmed by his return the taking of Lyons, and the inutility of his efforts.
MEMOIRS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE, RETURN, AND REIGN OF NAPOLEON IN 1815, VOL. IFLEURY DE CHABOULON.
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