| Main Entry: | unimportance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insignificance |
Synonyms: |
immateriality, inconsequence, inessentiality, pettiness, triviality, worthlessness |
Antonyms: |
essentiality, importance, significance |
| Main Entry: | unimportance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness |
Synonyms: |
humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, obscureness |
Antonyms: |
conceit, importance |
| Concept: | Unimportance. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-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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importance |
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| Main Entry: | nothingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insignificance |
Synonyms: |
pettiness, smallness, unimportance, worthlessness |
Antonyms: |
eminence, importance, significance |
| Main Entry: | inconsequence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indifference |
Synonyms: |
alienation, aloofness, apathy, callousness, carelessness, cold shoulder, cold-bloodedness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disdain, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, equity, heedlessness, immunity, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inattention, inconsequentiality, inconsequentialness, inertia, insensitivity, insignificance, insignificancy, insouciance, isolationism, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, noninterference, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, unimportance, unmindfulness |
| Main Entry: | inconsequentiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indifference |
Synonyms: |
alienation, aloofness, apathy, callousness, carelessness, cold shoulder, cold-bloodedness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disdain, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, equity, heedlessness, immunity, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inattention, inconsequence, inconsequentialness, inertia, insensitivity, insignificance, insignificancy, insouciance, isolationism, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, noninterference, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, unimportance, unmindfulness |
| Main Entry: | inconsequentialness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indifference |
Synonyms: |
alienation, aloofness, apathy, callousness, carelessness, cold shoulder, cold-bloodedness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disdain, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, equity, heedlessness, immunity, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inattention, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inertia, insensitivity, insignificance, insignificancy, insouciance, isolationism, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, noninterference, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, unimportance, unmindfulness |
| Main Entry: | insignificancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indifference |
Synonyms: |
alienation, aloofness, apathy, callousness, carelessness, cold shoulder, cold-bloodedness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disdain, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, equity, heedlessness, immunity, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inattention, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsequentialness, inertia, insensitivity, insignificance, insouciance, isolationism, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, noninterference, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, unimportance, unmindfulness |
| Main Entry: | negligibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pettiness |
Synonyms: |
baseness, cheapness, frivolousness, inconsequence, inconsiderableness, irrelevance, measliness, negligible, negligibleness, paltriness, shabbiness, smallness, subordination, trifle, triviality, trivialness, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | negligibleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pettiness |
Synonyms: |
baseness, cheapness, frivolousness, inconsequence, inconsiderableness, irrelevance, measliness, negligibility, negligible, paltriness, shabbiness, smallness, subordination, trifle, triviality, trivialness, unimportance |