Inconsiderable
[ɪnkən'sɪd(ə)rəb(ə)l] or [,ɪnkən'sɪdrəbl]
Definition
(adj.) too small or unimportant to merit attention; 'passed his life in an inconsiderable village'; 'their duties were inconsiderable'; 'had no inconsiderable influence' .
Edited by Ervin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum.
Editor: Pasquale
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unimportant, insignificant, small, trivial, trifling, petty, immaterial, of no consequence, of no moment.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONSIDERABLE]
Typist: Stacey
Definition
adj. not worthy of notice: unimportant.—n. Inconsid′erableness.—adv. Inconsid′erably.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- There is good reason to believe that Dr. Franklin had no inconsiderable share at least in furnishing materials for this work. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I myself am a layman, but I have given no inconsiderable attention to the divisions in the Church and-- Oh, damn the divisions! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It took no inconsiderable perseverance to arouse the inmates; but at last the respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Fourthly, In many parts of Scotland, during certain seasons of the year, herrings make no inconsiderable part of the food of the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have, I flatter myself, made no inconsiderable progress in her affections; but my own are entirely fixed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In the nineteenth century church, press and university devoted no inconsiderable part of their time to proving the high moral and scientific justice of child labor and human sweating. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Both the colonies and their trade were inconsiderable then, in comparison of what they are how. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At least the difference would be very inconsiderable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That jesuit had travelled over the whole country, and had no inclination to represent it as less inconsiderable than it really was. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The taxes upon the necessaries of life are inconsiderable in Great Britain, and no manufacture has hitherto been ruined by them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The state, however, derives no inconsiderable advantage from their instruction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- On the other hand, if they were put into too many tribes, their effect in any particular tribe might be inconsiderable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nature had given them no inconsiderable share of beauty, and every Sunday dressed them in their cleanest skins and best attire. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Yes, indeed, and received no inconsiderable pleasure from the sight. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The word politics, sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'comprises in itself, a difficult study of no inconsiderable magnitude. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The immediate advantage to herself was by no means inconsiderable, for it supplied her with endless jokes against them both. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me, to appear as inconsiderable in this nation, as one single Lilliputian would be among us. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Editor: Trudy