It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 19th.

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You're built to win it. Today's word is Nugatory, spelled N-U-G-A-T-O-R-Y. Nugatory is an adjective.

Something described as Nugatory is of little or no consequence. In law,

nugatory describes something such as a statute or agreement without operative legal effect.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Art Monthly.

Public outrage, fanned by the press, did not engage with the work, but focused instead on taxpayers' money, having been squandered on a

worthless pile of bricks. In fact, the purchase price of 2,297 pound sterling was nugatory,

but the issue was never really about price, but about rejecting the new and the challenging in art.

Just because the word nugatory isn't the most common one in the English language doesn't

mean it's trifling. Rather, nugatory is literally trifling because the two words are synonymous,

as in comments to nugatory to merit attention. Nugatory first

appeared in English in the 17th century. It comes from the Latin adjective Nugatorius, which can

mean not only trifling or frivolous, but also futile. This sense carried over into English as well,

and so in some contexts,

nugatory means ineffective or having no force, as when Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilyn

Robinson invoked the nugatory value of the contemporary penny.

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