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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Negligible \Neg"li*gi*ble\, adjective [Cf. F. n['e]gligible, n['e]gligeable.] That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of notice.
Within very negligible limits of error. --Sir J. Herschel.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
negligible
adjective
1: so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"
2: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" [syn: {paltry}, {trifling}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "negligible": back-burner, cursory, depthless, dinky, dispensable, fat, few, footling, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, little, low, meager, miniature, minor, minute, niggling, no great shakes, nonessential, not vital, nugatory, off, outside, paltry, petit, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, shallow, short, skin-deep, slender, slight, slim, small, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, worthless
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