Insignificant

Word INSIGNIFICANT
Character 13
Hyphenation in sig nif i cant
Pronunciations /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Insignificant"

What do we mean by insignificant?

Not significant, especially. adjective

Lacking in importance; trivial. adjective

Lacking power, position, or value; worthy of little regard. adjective

Small in size or amount. adjective

Having little or no meaning. adjective

Not significant; void of signification; without meaning.

Answering no purpose; having no weight or effect; unimportant; trivial.

Without weight of character; mean; contemptible: as, an insignificant fellow.

Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless. adjective

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

Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible. adjective

Not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect. adjective

Devoid of importance, meaning, or force adjective

Signifying nothing adjective

Not worthy of notice adjective

Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status adjective

Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

Without meaning; not signifying anything.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Insignificant

The word "insignificant" in example sentences

_insignificant_ persons; 'consequently, had it been any fault to do so, each alike was caught in that fault; and insignificant as the people might be, if they _could_ be' immortalized, 'then we have Schlosser himself confessing to the possibility that poetic splendor should create a secondary interest where originally there had been none. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

For every basis point the market moves, Jefferies said it loses or gains $37,000, which it called insignificant. ❋ Brett Philbin (2011)

If you're wondering who used the other ticket, Caetano says he took what he calls his insignificant other, because his wife is bedridden. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ford is still bumming around the galaxy, but notes his article on a certain insignificant blue-green orb undergoing revision, and Marvin is still Marvin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A 1792 compilation by several natural historians of insects includes comments such as the following: each insect, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, is "adapted for procuring its particular pleasures" (2); indeed, every insect, like every creature, "was formed for itself, and each allowed to seize as great a quantity of happiness from the universal stock ... each was formed to make the happiness of each" (6). ❋ Unknown (2001)

The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. ❋ Unknown (2001)

At the bottom of the organizational chart is something that is referred to as an insignificant green dot. ❋ Stuart R. Levine (1993)

"I should like to know what flower you call insignificant," said ❋ Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (N/A)

But the word insignificant could never have been applied to him. ❋ Unknown (1909)

One might be almost entitled, but for other evidence of the most decisive character, to imagine that the authorities had been misled as to the proper places for casting their nets, so utterly insignificant is the take which they have landed. ❋ Unknown (1865)

It is true that my inscriptions were set up for the most part, in insignificant towns and villages; yet, even without these memorials, it was possible that the person, who like me should find himself alone in a depopulate land, should, like me, come to Rome. ❋ Unknown (1826)

"Isn't that the number that you termed insignificant?" he asked Mueller. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It amounted to what he called the insignificant sum of ten or twelve thousand dollars, and was held sacred, and all that rigmarole; which, he said, nobody in the world knew about, but me; and which he didn't wish to have known. " ❋ Unknown (1864)

Top Stories Video: Wiki fallout "insignificant"-Gates ❋ Unknown (2010)

NPA to become 'insignificant' -- AFP military forces in charge of the government's internal security operations in the Bicol region said they are confident of reducing to "insignificance" the influence ❋ Unknown (2009)

Seemingly insignificant, that is, when each is considered alone. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

This is typical of the modernists' attempt to marginalize and classify as insignificant the desire of many to have the TLM celebrated at least as often as the NO. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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