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/ˌɪnsɪgnjˈɪfɪkənt/ Listen

adjective

Insignificant adj.

Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. "Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments."

Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.

Synonyms: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small; inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.

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Etymology of 'Insignificant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Insignificant" Quotes from Famous Books

... been unkind enough to throw upon me, that I seem to endeavour to divert more than to improve the Minds of my Readers. Now, as I take it, the Aim of every Person, who pretends to write (tho' in the most insignificant and ludicrous way) ought to tend at least to a good Moral Use; I shou'd be sorry to have my Intentions judg'd to be the very reverse of what they are in reality. How far I have been able to succeed in my Desires of infusing those Cautions, ...

— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

... dance once later on, but the girl he danced with was very small and insignificant ...

— Mark Mason's Victory • Horatio Alger

... the same method from the Chinese laundry of one Fung Ti of Fiddletown, has been described to me as peculiarly affecting. Yet I am satisfied that a higher nature, rising above the levity induced by the mere contemplation of the insignificant details of this breach of trust, would find ample retributive justice in the difficulties that subsequently attended Ah ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... Opera House, the only two which were left. As they looked around upon the crowded place they were for a time somewhat bewildered. They were not accustomed to seeing so many people together, and they felt very small and insignificant. Several people watched with interest the two boys who stared at everything and everybody in such undisguised wonder. But Rod and Phil did not care. They wanted to see and hear Miss Royanna and it did not matter to ...

— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody

... to the mansion of her noble relative, three miles off, in a magnificent carriage that was sent for her, in which she must have felt insignificant. Perhaps she got there in time to dress for dinner, perhaps not. Wearers of uniforms wash and ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

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