negligible

English

Alternative forms

• negligeable (archaic)

Etymology

From negligence/negligent +‎ -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“I neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/

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Adjective

negligible (comparative more negligible, superlative most negligible)

1. Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

   We found errors, but their effects were negligible.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.

   • 1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 61:

     Only unrealistic dreamers can suggest that Louis XVI might have accepted defeat and immediately turned himself into a constitutional monarch, even if he had been a less negligible and stupid man than he was, married to a less chicken-brained and irresponsible woman, and prepared to listen to less disastrous advisers.

Synonyms

• ignorable
• neglectable
• slight
• trivial
• See also Thesaurus:tiny

Antonyms

• considerable
• important
• significant
• innegligible
• unignorable

Derived terms

• negligibleness
• negligible set
• negligibly
• nonnegligible
• non-negligible

Related terms

• neglect
• negligence
• negligent

Translations

able to be ignored or excluded

• Bengali: নগণ্য (bn) (nogonno)
• Catalan: negligible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可忽视的 (kě hūshì de), 微不足道 (zh) (wēibùzúdào)

• Czech: zanedbatelný (cs)
• Danish: ubetydelig
• Dutch: verwaarloosbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: neglektinda
• Finnish: merkityksetön (fi), vähäpätöinen (fi), mitätön (fi), yhdentekevä (fi)
• French: négligeable (fr), insignifiant (fr)
• German: vernachlässigbar (de)
• Greek: αμελητέος (el) (amelitéos)
• Hindi: तुच्छ (hi) (tucch)
• Hungarian: elhanyagolható (hu)
• Italian: insignificante (it), trascurabile (it)
• Japanese: 些細 (ja) (sasai), つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 取るに足らない (ja) (toru ni taranai)
• Macedonian: занемарлив (zanemarliv)
• Polish: nieistotny (pl) m
• Portuguese: insignificante (pt), negligenciável, desprezável (pt)
• Romanian: neglijabil (ro), neînsemnat (ro),, insignifiant (ro)
• Russian: пренебрежи́мый (ru) (prenebrežímyj)
• Sanskrit: नगण्य (nagaṇya)
• Serbo-Croatian: занемарљив
• Spanish: insignificante (es), desdeñable (es), negligible, despreciable (es)
• Swedish: försumbar (sv)
• Thai: เล็กน้อย (th) (lék-nɔ́ɔi), ไม่สำคัญ (mâi-sǎm-kan), ขี้ปะติ๋ว (kîi-bpà-dtǐu)