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insignificant

[in-sig-nif-i-kuhnt]

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adjective

unimportant, trifling, or petty: Omit the insignificant details.

too small to be important: an insignificant sum.

of no consequence, influence, or distinction: a minor, insignificant bureaucrat.

without weight of character; contemptible: an insignificant fellow.

without meaning; meaningless: insignificant sounds.

noun

a word, thing, or person without significance.

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a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.

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Origin:
1620–30; in-³ + significant

Related forms

in·sig·nif·i·cant·ly, adverb

Synonyms
2. trifling, minute, minuscule, picayune.

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Example Sentences

Boies's presence there, as chief counsel, was not an insignificant event.

But the two or three places a university can provide amount to an insignificant cost.

Income promotes happiness a bit, but the effect tends to be small and statistically insignificant.

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Boies's presence there, as chief counsel, was not an insignificant event.

But the two or three places a university can provide amount to an insignificant cost.

Income promotes happiness a bit, but the effect tends to be small and statistically insignificant.

These savings may seem insignificant in the short term, but they add up over a year or more.

The environmental and social impacts of all our gadgets are not insignificant.

Leaves are narrow and willow-like, but its midseason white flowers sparse and almost hidden by new leaves are insignificant.

It therefore has a statistically insignificant probability of not sucking.

No article of furniture is too insignificant today for decoration.

Further, three hundred and twenty one examples are statistically insignificant.

India's economy is so small that it is, in all honestly, insignificant in the world.

The farther you walk, the smaller you become, and the more insignificant your problems.

The speed of sound is even more insignificant when compared to the speed of light.

L ow-growing shrubs with small, shiny, leathery leaves and insignificant flowers.

The point is: why report the time to such a large number of significant figures if some of the data is insignificant.

For aficionados of racing, winter is a time of discontent, of insignificant races and of memories of exactas that might have been.

Trust me, they will not labor over such an insignificant fact.

The discrepancy is neither surprising nor insignificant.

Destruction also eliminates the not insignificant expense of storing and guarding the items.

While small, these acidity changes are by no means insignificant.

Produces insignificant flowers in impressive spikelike clusters.

Even if file sharers make up a small slice of the population, the impact is not insignificant.

Those relations in fact are mysterious only in certain relatively insignificant details.

They are not insignificant and they are not trivial.

Gregg said the issue was so insignificant that he would not even address it.

The individual grains are innumerable and insignificant.

The fact that the results display on a smartphone instead of a laptop is insignificant.

The technical hurdles faced by bipedal robots are not insignificant.

It is interesting, now that the oil production of this immediate vicinity has dwindled to such insignificant proportions, to.

Affirmative action seems to have been largely insignificant.

However, there is the not insignificant question of whether he and his acolytes should be brought to trial.

Really makes you think about our insignificant existence in the whole universe.

Insignificant details can detract from an overview of our picture of the facts.

Empowerment is an amazing thing to be part of, no matter how insignificant ones' role may seem.

The company said the downgrading was relatively minor and would have an insignificant effect on its finances.

They are taught that they are the valuable thing, and the system or whole is insignificant by comparison.

But petrodollars and reserves are not insignificant.

Therefore any current reduction in your carbon footprint will only be insignificant as the population continues to grow.

The area is poor in natural resources and tactically insignificant.

The race issue played only an insignificant part in the discussion, which related chiefly to the subject of constructive recesses.

He's a swell guy, and how dare this uppity graduate student ruin it all for something as insignificant as plagiarism.

Income effects on the top decile are statistically insignificant.

I'll be sure to keep the world apprised of my insignificant travails.

The cost per school is not insignificant for those who truly need aid.

Even insignificant homes are filled with tin cans and all sorts of random objects that give life to the game's world.

The battle lines have been drawn and you must choose or be swept away in the maelstrom as so much insignificant dust.

Switching costs are not insignificant in terms of the time and effort expended by consumers.

Yet societies have built elaborate systems of privilege and control on these insignificant genetic differences".

After all, the journalists and consultants who tell us that location is insignificant are biased.

So insignificant was the porcelain pissoir at the time that no one can remember exactly what happened to it.

In comparison, my migration experience is both insignificant and important.

American politics has become so divisive that no argument is too insignificant that it can't be polarized to an unbridgeable gap.

The same discount late in the season, however, had a statistically insignificant effect.

They're always surprised to learn it comes from this shrub's insignificant flowers.

Tell your insignificant other to waddle on over to the newsstand and buy something glossy.

Among other things, he shoplifts small, insignificant items at the local supermarket.

Points utterly insignificant in regards to changing the final grade.

There is an insignificant positive correlation between emissions and housing supply growth at the metropolitan level.

They say that humans are too few and too insignificant to affect climate on a planet wide scale.

Psychologists posit that relatively insignificant events in our childhood have far-reaching effects on our thinking.

As a share of the trips people take, horses have become insignificant.

In actual physical terms, a not insignificant factor is the amount of methane gas being released when an area of ice is melted.

It is, in a way, every child's dream: to see the small and insignificant rise to power and importance.

The computational problem is not exactly insignificant.

Many people think the anthropogenic warming can't be quantified, many others think it must be an insignificant amount.

The problems with online video are not insignificant.

In such cases, freight rates and cargo-handling schedules become insignificant factors in deciding where to make the product.

Whatever bias blacks may suffer from is insignificant compared to the benefits they get for being black.

But these actors are doing it largely, with a few insignificant compromises, without rehearsal.

There's too much insignificant detail though, too much emphasis on fretful detail.

There are a not insignificant number of people who have significant aversions to dogs.

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.

Only the ears retained their normal size, and in proportion to the other features seemed small and insignificant.

Extra credit is a good way to bribe students into performing, as long as the percentage of the overall grade is insignificant.

These groups were insignificant in the first years of our independence.

In fact it is an insignificant blip on the historic data line which is smoothed over centuries.

The flowers are there, but they are tiny, almost insignificant clusters at the base of these bracts.

Predictions about the consequences of this run, as usual, from calamitous to insignificant.

I'd actually disagree that the cost of the medium is so insignificant in the cost of the book.

There is no way this insignificant amount will heat up our atmosphere in any significan maner.

Hanson's figures no longer seem anachronistic or insignificant.

Four carbon capture schemes are virtually insignificant compared to total emissions.

It can be presumed that the steel output for the countries you mentioned are insignificant in this aspect.

Everything else is insignificant tinkering around the edges.

Collectively, they aren't an insignificant part of the economy.

By comparison, the rate of deaths from global warming is insignificant and will remain so for decades.

As the number two source of foreign income, remittances are hardly insignificant.

The fact the number of bombs was insignificant is misleading.

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World English Dictionary

insignificant (ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt)

—*adj*
1.	having little or no importance; trifling
2.	almost or relatively meaningless
3.	small or inadequate: an insignificant wage
4.	not distinctive in character, etc

insig'nificance

—n

insig'nificancy

—n

insig'nificantly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

insignificant

1651, from in- "not" + significant (see significance).

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