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無駄 [ateji/ichi1,news1,nf15]
むだ [ichi1,news1,nf15] ムダ (nokanji)
1. [n,adj-na]
▶ futility
▶ waste
▶ uselessness
▶ pointlessness
▶ idleness



History:
17. A 2020-06-04 22:57:58  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
16. A* 2020-06-04 21:30:35  Opencooper
  Refs:
無駄	7345062
ムダ	1600823
無駄な	1874553
ムダな	166755
  Comments:
Worth including? I've seen it written like this a few times. We also have 「ムダ毛」.
  Diff:
@@ -19,0 +20,4 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ムダ</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
+</r_ele>
15. A 2018-05-20 09:14:00  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Let's close this for now. If we want to move adj-na to the front we can do so later (pending the results of the discussion on the 
mailing list).
  Diff:
@@ -20,0 +21 @@
+<pos>&n;</pos>
@@ -22,8 +22,0 @@
-<gloss>futile</gloss>
-<gloss>wasteful</gloss>
-<gloss>useless</gloss>
-<gloss>pointless</gloss>
-<gloss>vain</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
14. A* 2018-05-14 09:16:22  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
a topic for the mailing list?
13. A* 2018-05-14 04:21:27  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I don't like splitting adj-na/n here because it's very inconsistent with how we usually format our entries. If we decided to always 
split out the various PoS (like GG5 does) that'd be one thing, but as we haven't, I don't really see how this is a special case that 
warrants splitting.
On glossing a single sense like an adj-na or n, I don't have a strong opinion but I don't have an issue with basing it on the most 
common usage. I do feel this is something that needs to be properly formalize in our editing guidelines though, instead of relying 
on editors being aware of "what we usually do in these cases."
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