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Definition of Inconsiderable
1. Adjective. Too small or unimportant to merit attention. "Had no inconsiderable influence"
Definition of Inconsiderable
1. a. Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum.
Definition of Inconsiderable
1. Adjective. too trivial or unimportant to be worthy of attention ¹
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Definition of Inconsiderable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsiderable
Literary usage of Inconsiderable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"... was intimately acquainted with the history of the Christians, declares, in
the most express terms, that the number of martyrs was very inconsiderable.72 ..."
2. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"The guanaco is nearly the only warm-blooded quadruped, and it is found in quite
inconsiderable numbers compared with the multitude of flies. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... number of Patagonian aborigines is inconsiderable, and Tierra del Fuego has
about 4000 inhabitants. GOVERNMENT.—The form of government is republican. ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1898)
"Moreover, in the latter contingency the "inconsiderable village" in question,
and the provincial governor, are equally mysterious. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... in the midst of ten men who were guarding him; then he escaped, to their great
shame, and yet they were no inconsiderable persons. ..."
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