insignificant
IPA: ɪnsɪgnjˈɪfɪkʌnt
adjective
- Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.
- Without meaning; not signifying anything.
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Examples of "insignificant" in Sentences
- "I should like to know what flower you call insignificant," said
- But the word insignificant could never have been applied to him.
- At the bottom of the organizational chart is something that is referred to as an insignificant green dot.
- For every basis point the market moves, Jefferies said it loses or gains $37,000, which it called insignificant.
- If you're wondering who used the other ticket, Caetano says he took what he calls his insignificant other, because his wife is bedridden.
- Ford is still bumming around the galaxy, but notes his article on a certain insignificant blue-green orb undergoing revision, and Marvin is still Marvin.
- The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter.
- _insignificant_ persons; 'consequently, had it been any fault to do so, each alike was caught in that fault; and insignificant as the people might be, if they _could_ be' immortalized, 'then we have Schlosser himself confessing to the possibility that poetic splendor should create a secondary interest where originally there had been none.
- A 1792 compilation by several natural historians of insects includes comments such as the following: each insect, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, is "adapted for procuring its particular pleasures" (2); indeed, every insect, like every creature, "was formed for itself, and each allowed to seize as great a quantity of happiness from the universal stock ... each was formed to make the happiness of each" (6).
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