unimportant
pronunciation
How to pronounce unimportant in British English:
UK [ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːtnt]
How to pronounce unimportant in American English:
US [ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːrtnt]
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- Adjective:
- not important
- not important or noteworthy
Word Origin
- unimportant (adj.)
- 1750, from un- (1) "not" + important (adj.). Used earlier in a sense of "unassuming, modest" (1727). Related: Unimportantly.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Countries where you get asked to pay bribes are sometimes poor and unimportant countries .
- 2. You should also be throwing away all inserts , envelopes , and other unimportant things .
- 3. But she ignored all that unimportant trivia , because the beast had a loving heart !
- 4. When you move the unimportant out of plain sight you can focus on what really matters .
- 5. Before 1987 the focus was on the big deposit-taking banks : stockbrokers and investment banks were relatively unimportant players in the system .