Meaning of INSIGNIFICANT
| Pronunciation: | | `insig'nifukunt
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- [adj] not large enough to consider or notice
- [adj] not worthy of notice
- [adj] of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
- [adj] signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall
- [adj] not important or noteworthy
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| | Synonyms: | | hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner, inappreciable, inconsiderable, light, meaningless, minor, peanut, superficial, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant, unmeaning, unnoticeable |
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| | Antonyms: | | important, significant | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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. --Bp. Wilkins.
3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean;
contemptible; as, an insignificant person.
Syn: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small;
inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.
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| | Related Terms: | | aimless, back-burner, casual, cursory, depthless, designless, dinky, dispensable, empty, few, footling, garbled, immaterial, importless, inane, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insubstantial, irrelevant, lesser, light, little, low, meager, meaningless, miniature, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, no great shakes, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonessential, not vital, nugatory, null, paltry, petit, petty, phatic, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pointless, puny, purportless, purposeless, scrambled, secondary, senseless, shallow, shoestring, short, skin-deep, small, small-beer, small-fry, small-time, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unmeaning, unnoteworthy, unsignificant, unsubstantial |
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