Friday word: Nugatory

[med_cat]

Nugatory sounds creamy and delicious but it means unimportant, of no value or useless; futile.

From Latin nugatorius; from nugari "to trifle"; from nugae, or "jests."

Source (check out the other 10 words, too! Some of them had been featured on this comm before):

11 Words that don't mean what they sound like, from Mental Floss

Comments

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

It does sound creamy and delicious!

[med_cat]

It does, doesn't it ;)