insignificant

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    not large enough to consider or notice
    not worthy of notice
    signifying nothing
    of little importance or influence or power; of minor status
    not important or noteworthy

Word Origin

insignificant (adj.)
1650s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + significant. Related: Insignificantly.

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Example

1. But nepal is neither insignificant nor irrelevant .
2. It is the cheapest and quickest way of achieving an insignificant reduction .
3. Against the early , uncompromising defenders of israel , he thought his service insignificant .
4. Nevertheless , the fact that all of these insignificant changes were upward was , itself , statistically significant .
5. Afghanistan in the early 19th century was insignificant .

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