Insignificant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insignificant \In`sig*nif"i*cant\, a.
     1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import;
        meaningless; as, insignificant words.
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     2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose;


        unimportant; valueless; futile.
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              Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of
              rewards and punishments.              --Bp. Wilkins.
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     3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean;
        contemptible; as, an insignificant person.
  
     Syn: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small;
          inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insignificant
       adj 1: not large enough to consider or notice [syn: {trivial}]
       2: not worthy of notice [syn: {undistinguished}]
       3: signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his
          response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall [syn:
           {unmeaning}]
       4: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status;
          "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
          [syn: {peanut}]
       5: not important or noteworthy [syn: {unimportant}] [ant: {significant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "insignificant":
     aimless, back-burner, casual, cursory, depthless, designless,
     dinky, dispensable, empty, few, footling, garbled, immaterial,
     importless, inane, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
     inessential, inferior, insubstantial, irrelevant, lesser, light,
     little, low, meager, meaningless, miniature, minor, minute,
     negligible, niggling, no great shakes, nonconnotative,
     nondenotative, nonessential, not vital, nugatory, null, paltry,
     petit, petty, phatic, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pointless,
     puny, purportless, purposeless, scrambled, secondary, senseless,
     shallow, shoestring, short, skin-deep, small, small-beer,
     small-fry, small-time, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling,
     trivial, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unmeaning,
     unnoteworthy, unsignificant, unsubstantial