insignificant
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.
The word signify, which is at the heart of insignificant, means "to mean." Significant means "meaningful." Add in- "not," and you have "not meaningful." A company can fire a worker from an insignificant job and still function. In a crisis, your feelings are insignificant; it is your actions that matter.
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signifying nothing“insignificant sounds”
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Synonyms:
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meaningless, nonmeaningful
having no meaning or direction or purpose
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meaningless, nonmeaningful
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of little importance or influence or power; of minor status
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devoid of importance, meaning, or force
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synonyms:
unimportant
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unimportant
not important
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meaningless, nonmeaningful
having no meaning or direction or purpose
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hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner
relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life
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flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin
lacking substance or significance
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inappreciable
too small to make a significant difference
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light
having little importance
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superficial, trivial
of little substance or significance
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Antonyms:
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important, significant
important in effect or meaning
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important, of import
of great significance or value
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meaningful
having a meaning or purpose
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momentous
of very great significance
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epoch-making, epochal
highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era
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earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering
sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
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evidential, evidentiary
serving as or based on evidence
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fundamental, profound
far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
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large
fairly large or important in effect; influential
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monumental
of outstanding significance
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noteworthy, remarkable
worthy of notice
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probative, probatory
tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation
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operative
effective; producing a desired effect
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portentous, prodigious
of momentous or ominous significance
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unimportant
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not worthy of notice
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synonyms:
undistinguished
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unnoticeable
not noticeable; not drawing attention
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unnoticeable
/ˌˈɪnsɪgˌnɪfəkənt/
/ɪnsɪgˈnɪfɪkənt/
Vocabulary lists containing insignificant
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