inutility

Other forms of inutility

plural

inutilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inutility

What does inutility mean?

inutility means "the quality of having no practical use".

How many syllables are in inutility?

inutility has 5 syllables and divides as i-nu-ti-li-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for inutility?

Close synonyms include uselessness, unusefulness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inutility?

The recorded antonyms are utility.

Is inutility a common word?

inutility is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.