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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | where earth meets sky |
| Synonyms: | convergence point, convergent view, far horizon, mathematical point, meeting point, nothingness, pinpoint, point of convergence |
| Main Entry: | blankness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, blank, desolation, gap, hollowness, nothingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void |
| Main Entry: | inconsiderableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pettiness |
| Synonyms: | immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, indifference, meanness, molehill, negligibility, negligibleness, nothingness, paltriness, smallness, trifling matter, triviality, trivialness, worthlessness |
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| Main Entry: | insignificance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
airy, banal, beggarly, beneath consideration, beneath notice, beneath regard, catchpenny, cheap, common, commonplace, contemptible, extrinsic, fair, farcical, feckless, fiddle, finical, finikin, flimsy, floccinaucinihilipilification, footy, fribble, frivolous, frothy, gimcrack, idle, immaterial, inane, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, junkettaceous, light, meager, mean, mediocre, mere, milk and water, minutiose, miserable, namby, niggling, non, not worth a straw, not worth a thought, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth the pains, not worth while, of little account, of little importance, of no account, of no importance, of small account, of small importance, ordinary, paltry, passable, pedaneous, peddling, petty, piddling, pitiful, poor, powerless, puerile, putid, respectable, ridiculous, scrannel, scrubby, scurvy, shabby, shallow, shilpit, slender, slight, so, sorry, tolerable, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, twopenny, uneventful, unimportant, unworthy of consideration, unworthy of notice, unworthy of regard, vain, vile, weak, weedy, wishy, wretched
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| Concept: | Negation. |
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-nouns
negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal, disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention; recusation, protest; recusancy (dissent); flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi., qualification; repudiation; retraction; confutation; refusal; prohibition.
-verbs
deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head., disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant; revoke (abrogate)., dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question, call in question (doubt) [more]; give (one) the lie in his throat., deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emphatically, deny absolutely, deny wholly, deny entirely; give the lie to, belie., repudiate; set aside, ignore [more]; rebut (confute); qualify; refuse.
-adjectives
denying; denied; contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant (dissenting); at issue upon.
-adverbs
no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, not in the least, not so; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively.
-phrases
there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in faedera.
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| Antonyms: | affirmation |
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