Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Not significant;
not important,
consequential, or
having a noticeable
effect.
- Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.
Antonyms
Related terms
Derived terms
Translations
not significant; not important
- Chinese: 無意義, 无意义
- Czech: nevýznamný
- Dutch: onbelangrijk, onbelangrijke
- Finnish: mitätön, merkityksetön, samantekevä, vähäpätöinen
- French: insignifiant , insignifiante
- German: bedeutungslos, unbedeutend
- Greek: ασήμαντος , ασήμαντη , ασήμαντο
- Italian: insignificante m|f
- Japanese: 些細な
- Korean: 하찮은
- Portuguese: insignificante , insignificanta
- Russian: незначительный , незначительная , незначительное , незначительные p
- Spanish: insignificante m|f
- Swedish: obetydlig
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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