insignificant

English

Etymology

From in- (“not”) +‎ significant

Pronunciation

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Adjective

insignificant (comparative more insignificant, superlative most insignificant)

1. Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

   Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.

2. Without meaning; not signifying anything.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

• significant

Derived terms

• insignificance
• insignificantly

Translations

not significant; not important

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: insignificant (ca)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無意義 (zh), 无意义 (zh) (wúyìyì), 無關緊要 (zh), 无关紧要 (zh) (wúguān jǐnyào)

• Czech: nevýznamný m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: onbelangrijk (nl), onbelangrijke (nl)
• Finnish: mitätön (fi), merkityksetön (fi), samantekevä, vähäpätöinen (fi)
• French: insignifiant (fr) m, insignifiante (fr) f
• German: bedeutungslos (de), unbedeutend (de)
• Greek: ασήμαντος (el) (asímantos)
• Hungarian: jelentéktelen (hu)

• Italian: insignificante (it) m, f
• Japanese: 些細な (ja) (ささいな, sasai-na), 無意味な (ja) (むいみな, muimi-na)
• Khmer: មិនសំខាន់ (mɨn sɑmkʰan), មិនគួរឱ្យកត់សម្គាល់ (mɨn kuə aoy kɑt sɑmkoal)
• Korean: 하찮은 (hachanh-eun)
• Latin: perexiguus
• Maori: whetowheto, hauwarea, hanganoa
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: nieistotny (pl)
• Portuguese: insignificante (pt)
• Romanian: nesemnificant m, n, nesemnificativ (ro) m, n, neimportant (ro) m, n, nesemnificantă f
• Russian: незначи́тельный (ru) (neznačítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: безначајан m (beznačajan)
• Spanish: insignificante (es) m, f
• Swedish: obetydlig (sv), betydelselös (sv)
• Turkish: anlamsız (tr), (dated) ehemmiyetsiz (tr), manasız (tr), önemsiz (tr)