as in minor
lacking importance
we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct
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Recent Examples of unimportant
To those who don’t yet own an EV, a robust infrastructure may seem unimportant.
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Wally Rippel, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2025
Saying that facts are constructed through social processes is not the same as saying facts are unimportant or made up.
—Jacob Hale Russell, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.
—Adam Chandler, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
Council President Joe LaCava defended the city’s focus on something so relatively unimportant compared to closing a $258 million deficit that is expected to require substantial budget cuts.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
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Wally Rippel, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2025
Saying that facts are constructed through social processes is not the same as saying facts are unimportant or made up.
—Jacob Hale Russell, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.
—Adam Chandler, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
Council President Joe LaCava defended the city’s focus on something so relatively unimportant compared to closing a $258 million deficit that is expected to require substantial budget cuts.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimportant
Adjective
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Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time of the initial earthquake.—
William B. Davis,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The incident, while ultimately only a minor one, did impact the rest of their vacation.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Lee already had six permanent tattoos –– small ones easily hidden by clothing –– and thought this was a good opportunity to try out a more visible tattoo.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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Hybrid solutions are currently typically used for small systems.—
ILYA Likhov,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There were little tiny water bubbles around each of them.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Apr. 2025
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Gone are most of the toggle switches (and the little safety protrusions that accompanied them) on the dashboard, with the exception of one for changing between drive, reverse, and neutral, plus another to switch between drive modes.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The biggest reason: New York’s discovery law allows cases to be dismissed even for trivial, fixable discovery violations.—
Jane Manning,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2025
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If anything, becoming a weird little guy, by my definition, is about rejecting the despair that leads down those kinds of regressive paths, and daring to care about something, even — and perhaps especially — if that something might seem kind of dumb or trivial to the outside world.—
James Factora,
Them.,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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What this means isn’t that this music is cheap or worthless.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
30 Mar. 2025
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So restricted in scope as to be nearly worthless and thus is rarely utilized.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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When life feels overwhelming, self-care might seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things.—
Tess Brigham,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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That’s not an insignificant amount of money for a burgeoning industry.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Instead of the pants flowing to the ground, Davis opted to tuck the hem of her pants into her black pointed-toe boots with a slight heel.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
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International museums in 2024 collectively experienced a slight dip in attendance that marks a return to normalcy in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, the Art Newspaper reports.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unimportant. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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