| Main Entry: | insignificance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unimportance |
Synonyms: |
immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, indifference, meanness, molehill, negligibility, nothingness, paltriness, pettiness, smallness, trifling matter, triviality, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | irrelevance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irrelevancy |
Synonyms: |
immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, incongruity, inconsistency, insignificance, remoteness, triviality, unrelatedness |
| Main Entry: | unimportance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insignificance |
Synonyms: |
immateriality, inconsequence, inessentiality, pettiness, triviality, worthlessness |
Antonyms: |
essentiality, importance, significance |
| Main Entry: | inconsiderableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pettiness |
Synonyms: |
immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, indifference, meanness, molehill, negligibility, negligibleness, nothingness, paltriness, smallness, trifling matter, triviality, trivialness, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | insignificance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
light, shallow, airy, banal, beggarly, beneath consideration, beneath notice, beneath regard, catchpenny, cheap, common, commonplace, contemptible, extrinsic, fair, farcical, feckless, fiddle, finical, finikin, flimsy, floccinaucinihilipilification, footy, fribble, frivolous, frothy, gimcrack, idle, immaterial, inane, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, junkettaceous, meager, mean, mediocre, mere, milk and water, minutiose, miserable, namby, niggling, non, not worth a straw, not worth a thought, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth the pains, not worth while, of little account, of little importance, of no account, of no importance, of small account, of small importance, ordinary, paltry, passable, pedaneous, peddling, petty, piddling, pitiful, poor, powerless, puerile, putid, respectable, ridiculous, scrannel, scrubby, scurvy, shabby, shilpit, slender, slight, so, sorry, tolerable, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, twopenny, uneventful, unimportant, unworthy of consideration, unworthy of notice, unworthy of regard, vain, vile, weak, weedy, wishy, wretched
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| Concept: | Unimportance. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality., triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness; poverty; smallness; vanity (uselessness); matter of indifference; no object., nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel., toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, rickshaw, knicknack, whim-wham, trifle, "trifles light as air"; yankee notions [U.S.]., trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; "leather or prunello"; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse (inutility); scum (dirt)., joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge (unmeaning); fiddlestick, fiddlestick end; pack of nonsense, mere farce., straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent [U.S.]., minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the seal, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill., nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus; flash in the pan (impotence); much ado about nothing (overestimation).
-verbs
be unimportant; not matter; go for nothing, matter nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not matter a straw, make light of (underestimate); catch at straws (overestimate).
-adjectives
unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance [more]; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent., subordinate (inferior); mediocre (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable., trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water., poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, two penny half penny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U.S.]., not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain (useless).
-adverbs
slightly; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably., for aught one cares.
-phrases
magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; it matters not, it does not signify; it is of no consequence, it is of no importance; elephantus non capit murem; tempete dans
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Antonyms: |
importance |
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