[syn: insignificant, unimportant]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insignificant \In`sig*nif"i*cant\, a.
1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import;
meaningless; as, insignificant words.
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2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose;
unimportant; valueless; futile.
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Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of
rewards and punishments. --Bp. Wilkins.
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3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean;
contemptible; as, an insignificant person.
Syn: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small;
inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
insignificant
adj 1: not worthy of notice [syn: insignificant,
undistinguished]
2: signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"
3: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status;
"a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
[syn: insignificant, peanut]
4: devoid of importance, meaning, or force [syn:
insignificant, unimportant] [ant: important,
significant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "insignificant":
aimless, back-burner, casual, cursory, depthless, designless,
dinky, dispensable, empty, few, footling, garbled, immaterial,
importless, inane, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
inessential, inferior, insubstantial, irrelevant, lesser, light,
little, low, meager, meaningless, miniature, minor, minute,
negligible, niggling, no great shakes, nonconnotative,
nondenotative, nonessential, not vital, nugatory, null, paltry,
petit, petty, phatic, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pointless,
puny, purportless, purposeless, scrambled, secondary, senseless,
shallow, shoestring, short, skin-deep, small, small-beer,
small-fry, small-time, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling,
trivial, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unmeaning,
unnoteworthy, unsignificant, unsubstantial