Negligible
['neglɪdʒɪb(ə)l] or ['nɛɡlɪdʒəbl]
Definition
(adj.) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; 'the effect was negligible' .
(adj.) not worth considering; 'he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost'; 'piffling efforts'; 'a trifling matter' .
Typist: Tyler--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration.
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Examples
- Everybody outside the Hellenic circle was a barbarian, and negligible save as a possible enemy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Either he is not aware of their existence at all, or he dismisses them as merely negligible--things which are vital to the other person. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was that of all the people he had grown up among, and he had always regarded it as necessary but negligible. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Yet I do not wish to furnish the impression that crises are negligible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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