insignificant

insignificant
    adj 1: not worthy of notice [syn: {insignificant},
           {undistinguished}]
    2: signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"
    3: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status;
       "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
       [syn: {insignificant}, {peanut}]
    4: devoid of importance, meaning, or force [syn:
       {insignificant}, {unimportant}] [ant: {important},
       {significant}]
    

Insignificant \In`sig*nif"i*cant\, a.
   1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import;
      meaningless; as, insignificant words.
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   2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose;
      unimportant; valueless; futile.
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            Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of
            rewards and punishments.              --Bp. Wilkins.
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   3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean;
      contemptible; as, an insignificant person.

   Syn: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small;
        inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.
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74 Moby Thesaurus words for "insignificant":
      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