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unimportant
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant, small |
| Synonyms: | fat, feeble, inconsiderable, insubstantial, meager, minor, modest, negligible, off, outside, paltry, petty, piddling, remote, scanty, slender, slim, sparse, superficial, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant, weak |
| Antonyms: | big, great, important, large, significant |
| Main Entry: | sorry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, pathetic |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, cheap, contemptible, deplorable, despisable, disgraceful, dismal, distressing, inadequate, insignificant, mean, miserable, paltry, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, sad, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, vile, worthless, wretched |
| Antonyms: | good, hopeful, nice |
| Main Entry: | trifling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant, worthless |
| Synonyms: | banal, dinky, empty, forget it, frivolous, hollow, idle, idling, inane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insipid, jejune, loitering, measly, minuscule, negligible, niggling, no big deal, no big thing, nugatory, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, puny, shallow, silly, slight, small, tiny, trivial, unimportant, vain, valueless, vapid |
| Antonyms: | important, significant, useful, worthwhile |
| Main Entry: | trivial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not important |
| Synonyms: | atomic, beside the point, commonplace, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, frivolous, immaterial, inappreciable, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meager, mean, meaningless, microscopic, minor, minute, momentary, negligible, nonessential, nugatory, of no account, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, scanty, skin-deep, slight, small, superficial, trifling, trite, unimportant, valueless, vanishing, worthless |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, significant, useful, valuable, weighty, worthwhile |
| Main Entry: | unessential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unnecessary |
| Synonyms: | avoidable, beside the point, dispensable, expendable, futile, inessential, irrelevant, needless, nonessential, optional, uncalled-for, unimportant, unneeded, unrequired, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | vain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | futile, useless |
| Synonyms: | abortive, barren, bootless, delusive, delusory, empty, frivolous, fruitless, going nowhere, hollow, idle, in vicious circle, inefficacious, insignificant, misleading, no-win, not a prayer, nugatory, on a treadmill, otiose, paltry, petty, pointless, profitless, puny, senseless, shuck, slight, sterile, time-wasting, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unnotable, unproductive, unprofitable, valueless, void, worthless |
| Antonyms: | possible |
| Main Entry: | minuscule |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very small |
| Synonyms: | diminutive, insignificant, microscopic, minute, small, tiny, unimportant |
| Notes: | a majuscule is a capital letter; a minuscule is a lowercase one |
| Antonyms: | huge |
| Main Entry: | worthless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of no use; without value |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abject, barren, base, bogus, cheap, contemptible, counterproductive, despicable, empty, futile, good-for-nothing, ignoble, inconsequential, ineffective, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, inutile, meaningless, mediocre, miserable, no-account, no-good, nothing, nugatory, paltry, pointless, poor, profitless, sterile, trashy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unessential, unimportant, unproductive, unprofitable, unusable, useless, valueless, waste, wretched |
| Antonyms: | valuable, worthwhile, worthy |
| Main Entry: | inconsequential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant |
| Synonyms: | big zero, casual, dinky, entry level, exiguous, immaterial, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsiderable, insignificant, insufficient, light, little, measly, minor, negligible, no biggie, paltry, petty, picayune, puny, runt, scanty, shoestring, shrimp, skimpy, small, small potatoes, small-time, trifling, trivial, two bit, unconsidered, unimportant, wimpy, worthless |
| Antonyms: | important, significant |
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