Unimportant
[ʌnɪm'pɔːt(ə)nt] or ['ʌnɪm'pɔrtnt]
Definition
(adj.) not important; 'a relatively unimportant feature of the system'; 'the question seems unimportant' .
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insignificant, trivial, trifling, inconsiderable, small, slight, of no consequence, of no moment.
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Examples
- But as men, personalities, they were just accidents, sporadic little unimportant phenomena. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They had a dozen topics in common--interesting to them, unimportant to the rest of the world. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Pray let me see you measure out the laudanum; I want to have something to do with it, even in the unimportant character of a mere looker-on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Venn sat with lips impassively closed and eyes reduced to a pair of unimportant twinkles; he scarcely appeared to breathe. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Such alone are the unimportant differences which Gartner is able to point out between hybrid and mongrel plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The rest of the emperors of this period were chiefly adventurers too unimportant to the general scheme of things for us to note. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He has played a not unimportant part in this drama, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have never recovered my self-respect since you showed me how poor and unimportant my ambitions were. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He said a few unimportant words, with a visible effort to preserve his customary ease of manner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The contributions to the art and the improvements in the manufacture of talking machines and talking-machine records from sources outside of the United States have been very unimportant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If politics is irrelevant, it is certainly not because its subject matter is unimportant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We don't choose to publish our transactions, however unimportant, to all the town. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Unimportant people slept about anywhere as retainers did in the medi?val castles and as people still do in Indian households. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Any variation which is not inherited is unimportant for us. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Where there is fortune to make the expenses of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He had left early for the office, where he had plunged into an accumulation of unimportant business. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But Ursula's mind ceased to be receptive, everything was unimportant and unreal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The diagram is much too simple, too few genera and too few species being given, but this is unimportant for us. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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