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Definition of Insignificant

1. Adjective. Not worthy of notice.

2. Adjective. Signifying nothing. "Insignificant sounds"

3. Adjective. Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status. "Peanut politicians"

4. Adjective. Devoid of importance, meaning, or force.

Definition of Insignificant

1. a. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

Definition of Insignificant

1. Adjective. Not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Insignificant

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insignificant

insiduous insight insight learning insightful insightfully insightfulness insightless insights insigne insignia

insignia of rank insignias insignificance insignificances insignificancy insignificant (current term) insignificantly insignificative insignitor insignitors

insignment insignments insincere insincerely insincerities insincerity insinew insinewed insinews insinuant

Literary usage of Insignificant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER XII Why the 'Americans Raise Some Monuments so insignificant, ... Nowhere do citizens appear so insignificant as in a democratic nation ; nowhere ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER XII Why the 'Americans Raise Some Monuments so insignificant, ... Nowhere do citizens appear so insignificant as in a democratic nation; ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"ventors of this country, it made them a very insignificant return. Only about 2000/. was spent upon a Patent Museum. The Patent Museum at South Kensington ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... so as to be insignificant in weight, all comes in the way of the wind, increasing the head- resistance without counterbalancing advantages. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... so as to be insignificant in weight, all comes in the way of the wind, increasing the head- resistance without counterbalancing advantages. ..."

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