Insignificant

Quick meaning: Insignificant is an adjective meaning Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

Meaning

Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

More Meanings

1. Without meaning; not signifying anything.
2. Someone or something that is insignificant.

Example Sentences

Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.

An interesting series of advertisements is now being run by Henry W. Peabody & Company, of New York, makers of Domes of Silence, for the purpose of glorifying the insignificants of retailing. The keynote of this advertising is a broad-gauged attempt to sell dealers the idea of grouping small wares in such a way that they will gain strength by union.

Sometimes, they lunch-called you between 12:45 and 2:00, knowing you wouldn’t be there. It’s an art form, passed down generation to generation. I tried to one-up them by early-calling them, usually from home, say at 8:30 a.m., their poor assistants knowing that was one more return call they’d have to do that night when they were still at the office at 10 p.m. late-calling the insignificants of the 310 area code.

The whole forenoon generally ſpent amidſt a ſucceſſion of viſitants, a mob of idlers; the reſt of the day in dinners, public places, and evening-parties. Although in my own mind I deſpiſed the giddy reſtleſs inſignificants that figured in this perpetual drama; yet as I conſidered myſelf as a paſſenger only for the time, I ſubmitted to be carried along with the ſtream, and partook of the flying amuſements, as they occurred.

Word Forms

• insignificants

Synonyms for insignificant

Depending on context, synonyms include base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, futile, frivolous.

Antonyms for insignificant

Common opposites include significant, important, weighty, noteworthy, consequential.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inappreciable, inconsiderable, undistinguished, unmeaning, minor, meaningless.

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