Meaning & use

insignificant

adjective·Academic

Too small or unimportant to be worth considering; having little or no significance.

See it in a sentence

The error was so insignificant that no one on the team even noticed it.

Compared to the scale of the disaster, their complaint seemed insignificant.

A note on using this word

Insignificant judges something as unimportant in effect or value, not necessarily small in physical size.

Words with a similar meaning

negligibletrivialminor

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