Dec. 30th, 2014

frustraneous

Dec. 30th, 2014 07:44 am
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frustraneous (frus-TRAY-nee-us) - adj., useless, vain, unprofitable.


Leading to frustration. While it looks like a colorful 19th century Americanism coined on the model of extraneous, it actually dates to 1643. Kinda obsolete now, alas.

---L.
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