nugatory

adjective4

1. •
   Trivial, trifling or of little importance.

   • I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory. — 1872
2. •
   Ineffective, invalid or futile.

   • The government’s response has been nugatory, its mean mitigations mostly in loans that only stoke future problems for households: high energy prices are not set to be a brief spike. — 2022
3. •
   Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.

   • But these regulations would have been impotent and nugatory, had not the licentious nobles been awed by the sword of the civil power. — 1788
4. •
   Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.