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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Insignificant \In'sig*nif"i*cant\, adjective
1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.
2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile.
Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments. --Bp. Wilkins.
3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.
Syn: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small; inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
insignificant
adjective
1: not large enough to consider or notice [syn: {trivial}]
2: not worthy of notice [syn: {undistinguished}]
3: signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall [syn: {unmeaning}]
4: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians" [syn: {peanut}]
5: not important or noteworthy [syn: {unimportant}] [ant: {significant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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