Negligible

3 definitions found

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

  Negligible \Neg"li*gi*ble\, a. [Cf. F. n['e]gligible,
     n['e]gligeable.]
     That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of
     consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of
     notice.
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           Within very negligible limits of error.  --Sir J.
                                                    Herschel.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  negligible
       adj 1: so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect
              was negligible"
       2: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry
          for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a
          trifling matter" [syn: {paltry}, {trifling}]

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

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "negligible":
     back-burner, cursory, depthless, dinky, dispensable, fat, few,
     footling, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential,
     inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant,
     little, low, meager, miniature, minor, minute, niggling,
     no great shakes, nonessential, not vital, nugatory, off, outside,
     paltry, petit, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, shallow,
     short, skin-deep, slender, slight, slim, small, superficial,
     technical, tiny, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant,
     unimpressive, unnoteworthy, worthless