Negligible

Quick meaning: Negligible is an adjective meaning Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

Meaning

Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

Example Sentences

We found errors, but their effects were negligible.

Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.

Only unrealistic dreamers can suggest that Louis XVI might have accepted defeat and immediately turned himself into a constitutional monarch, even if he had been a less negligible and stupid man than he was, married to a less chicken-brained and irresponsible woman, and prepared to listen to less disastrous advisers.

Word Forms

• negligeable

Synonyms for negligible

Depending on context, synonyms include ignorable, neglectable, slight, trivial, paltry, trifling.

Antonyms for negligible

Common opposites include considerable, important, significant, innegligible, unignorable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worthless, trifling, paltry, minimal, minimum, insignificant.

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