Insignificant
[ɪnsɪg'nɪfɪk(ə)nt] or [,ɪnsɪɡ'nɪfɪkənt]
Definition
(adj.) not worthy of notice .
(adj.) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; 'a minor, insignificant bureaucrat'; 'peanut politicians' .
(adj.) signifying nothing; 'insignificant sounds' .
(adj.) devoid of importance, meaning, or force .
Typist: Marietta--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.
(a.) Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile.
(a.) Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.
Typed by Cedric
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Without meaning, not significant.[2]. Unimportant, paltry, petty, empty, trivial, trifling, immaterial, unessential, of little consequence, of little account, of no moment.
Checked by Adrienne
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SIGNIFICANT]
Typed by Gladys
Definition
adj. destitute of meaning: without effect: unimportant: petty.—ns. Insignif′icance Insignif′icancy.—adv. Insignif′icantly.—adj. Insignif′icātive not significative or expressing by external signs.
Editor: Lora
Examples
- For me, I am little, chetif, insignificant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How insignificant compared with the wonder wrought by this one machine seems indeed any of the old seven wonders of the world! William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Again I tell you it is not the insignificant private individual--the mere man, with the man's selfish senses--I wish to mate: it is the missionary. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Indeed, once started, this station was operated uninterruptedly for eight years with only insignificant stoppage. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- What a match for George she'd be (the sisters and Miss Wirt agreed), and how much better than that insignificant little Amelia! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He did not want such insignificant game. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It looked an insignificant thing to have conferred upon the world of science and mechanics such a mighty extension of their dominions as it has. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Puny and insignificant, you mean. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was insignificant in size, and his rope seemed only a thread. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The waiter, who I supposed had lived in his churchwarden's pew for forty years, could not pursue such an insignificant subject. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is an insignificant series of events. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His features were plain and slight, his hair sandy, his stature insignificant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Repression is an insignificant part of its work; the use of the club can never be applauded, though it may be tolerated _faute de mieux_. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sailor's Creek, an insignificant stream, running northward, empties into the Appomattox between the High Bridge and Jetersville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The priestly _class_, in comparison with the equivalent class in Egypt and Babylonia, was small and insignificant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In no insignificant number of cases the vote is a cover by which revolutionary demands can be given a conventional front. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When the law has restrained them from doing this, they have become altogether useless and insignificant. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There are about sixteen million milch cows in the United States, and their contribution to the food stuffs of the day in milk, butter, and cheese is no insignificant factor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To his mind the earth is only an insignificant dot in the center of the vast heavens. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Thus Society escapes, and the illimitable power of Chemistry remains the slave of the most superficial and the most insignificant ends. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Bernard Shaw has found time to do no end of campaigning and even the parochial politics of a vestryman has not seemed too insignificant for his Fabian enthusiasm. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the treacherous sunlight we see Venice decayed, forlorn, poverty-stricken, and commerceless--forgotten and utterly insignificant. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Oh, I don't count--I'm too insignificant. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Even the most insignificant problem would be welcome in these stagnant days. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The melting down of the plate of private families has, upon every occasion, been found a still more insignificant one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The most trivial, paltry, insignificant part; the merest commonplace; not a tolerable speech in the whole. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I cannot tell you the loathing and horror with which this insignificant-looking man inspired me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Certainly these constructions occupy an insignificant amount of space in the body of the report. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Lora