Fromin-(“not”) +significant.[1]
- IPA(key): /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/
- Hyphenation:in‧sig‧nif‧i‧cant
insignificant (comparativemoreinsignificant,superlativemostinsignificant)
- Notsignificant; notimportant,inconsequential, or having nonoticeableeffect.
Such things areinsignificant details compared to the main goal.
- Withoutmeaning; notsignifying anything.
not significant; not important
- Arabic:please add this translation if you can
- Bengali:খাকদর খাক (bn)(khakdor khak)
- Bulgarian:незначителен (bg)(neznačitelen)
- Catalan:insignificant (ca)
- Cherokee:please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:微不足道的 (zh)(wēibùzúdào de),無關緊要的 /无关紧要的 (zh)(wúguānjǐnyào de),無足輕重的 /无足轻重的(wúzúqīngzhòng de)
- Czech:nevýznamný
- Danish:please add this translation if you can
- Dhivehi:please add this translation if you can
- Dutch:insignificant (nl),onbeduidend (nl)
- Finnish:mitätön (fi),merkityksetön (fi),samantekevä (fi),vähäpätöinen (fi)
- French:insignifiant (fr)
- Galician:insignificante
- German:bedeutungslos (de),unbedeutend (de)
- Greek:ασήμαντος (el)(asímantos)
- Hindi:तुच्छ (hi)(tucch),नगण्य (hi)(nagaṇya),निरर्थक (hi)(nirarthak),महत्वहीन(mahatvahīn),अर्थहीन (hi)(arthahīn)
- Hungarian:jelentéktelen (hu)
- Italian:insignificante (it),irrilevante (it),nullo (it)
- Japanese:些細な (ja)(ささいな, sasai na),無意味な (ja)(むいみな, muimi na)
- Khmer:មិនសំខាន់(mɨn sɑmkʰan),មិនគួរឱ្យកត់សម្គាល់(mɨn kuə aoy kɑt sɑmkoal)
- Korean:하찮은(hachaneun)
- Latin:perexiguus
- Maori:whetowheto,hauwarea,hanganoa
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari:изи(izi)
- Mirandese:please add this translation if you can
- Occitan:insignificant
- Ottoman Turkish:یسیر(yesir)
- Polish:nieistotny (pl),błahy (pl),błahy (pl)
- Portuguese:insignificante (pt)
- Romanian:nesemnificant,nesemnificativ (ro),neimportant (ro)
- Russian:незначи́тельный (ru)(neznačítelʹnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:безначајан,beznačajan (sh)
- Spanish:insignificante (es),oscuro (es),desestimable,pichirruchi m
- Swedish:obetydlig (sv),betydelselös (sv)
- Turkish:anlamsız (tr),(dated)ehemmiyetsiz (tr),manasız (tr),önemsiz (tr)
- Ukrainian:незначни́й(neznačnýj)
- Uzbek:arzimagan (uz)
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insignificant (pluralinsignificants)
- Someone or something that isinsignificant.
1710 November 15–18 (Gregorian calendar), Jenny Distaff[pseudonym;Richard Steele],The Tatler, number247, London: […] John Morphew […],→OCLC,page[2], column 1:Methinks I feel all the Woman riſe in me when I reflect upon the nauſeous Rogues that pretend to deceive us. Wretches! that can never have it in their Power to over-reach any Thing living but their Miſtreſſes! In the Name of Goodneſs, if we are deſigned by Nature as ſuitable Companions to the other Sex, why are we not treated accordingly? If we have Merit, as ſome allow, why is it not as baſe in Men to injure us, as one another? If we are theInſignificants, that others call us, where is the Triumph in deceiving us?
1785 May 21, Horatius, “To the Author of the Lounger”, inThe Lounger, number XVI, Edinburgh: […] William Creech,→ISSN,→OCLC,pages63–64:The whole forenoon generally ſpent amidſt a ſucceſſion of viſitants, a mob of idlers; the reſt of the day in dinners, public places, and evening-parties. Although in my own mind I deſpiſed the giddy reſtleſsinſignificants that figured in this perpetual drama; yet as I conſidered myſelf as a paſſenger only for the time, I ſubmitted to be carried along with the ſtream, and partook of the flying amuſements, as they occurred.
1924 June 5, August Belden, “Magnifying the Infusoria of Industry: Manufacturers of ‘Insignificants’ Find Ways to Bring Their Wares into Prominence”, inPrinters’ Ink: A Journal for Advertisers, volume CXXVII, number10, New York, N.Y.: Printers’ Ink Publishing Company,→ISSN,→OCLC,page44, column 1:An interesting series of advertisements is now being run by Henry W. Peabody & Company, of New York, makers of Domes of Silence, for the purpose of glorifying theinsignificants of retailing. The keynote of this advertising is a broad-gauged attempt to sell dealers the idea of grouping small wares in such a way that they will gain strength by union.
2005, Tracy McArdle, chapter 15, inConfessions of a Nervous Shiksa, New York, N.Y.:Downtown Press,→ISBN,page177:Sometimes, they lunch-called you between 12:45 and 2:00, knowing you wouldn’t be there. It’s an art form, passed down generation to generation. I tried to one-up them by early-calling them, usually from home, say at 8:30 a.m., their poor assistants knowing that was one more return call they’d have to do that night when they were still at the office at 10 p.m. late-calling theinsignificants of the 310 area code.
insignificant m orf (masculine and feminine pluralinsignificants)
- insignificant(not important)
- Antonym:significant
- “insignificant”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “insignificant”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
- “insignificant” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “insignificant” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Fromin- +significant.
insignificant (comparativeinsignificanter,superlativeinsignificantst)
- insignificant
- Synonym:onbeduidend
- Antonyms:significant,beduidend
insignificant m (feminine singularinsignificanta,masculine pluralinsignificants,feminine pluralinsignificantas)
- insignificant(not important)
- Antonym:significant
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006),Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians[1], 2nd edition,→ISBN, page568
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana[2], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber,2008-2025, page345
Borrowed fromItalianinsignificante.
insignificant m orn (feminine singularinsignificantă,masculine pluralinsignificanți,feminine and neuter pluralinsignificante)
- insignificant
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