insignificant

[In`sig*nif·i*cant]

When something is insignificant, it doesn't matter. The fact that your mom gets to school a half hour late becomes insignificant when she announces you're stopping for ice cream on the way home.

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Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

Adjective S.
not large enough to consider or notice

Adjective S.
not worthy of notice

Adjective S.
of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"

Adjective S.
signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall

Adjective
not important or noteworthy

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a.
Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

a.
Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile.

a.
Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.


Insignificant

In`sig*nif"i*cant , a. 1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile.
Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments.
3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person. Syn. -- Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small; inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.

Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

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Usage Examples

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

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Other Usage Examples

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

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