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
In the latter, an anthropology student is consumed by her research on a rare female pharaoh that her colleagues dismiss as unimportant.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Children in these households often feel abandoned and unimportant, and their self-esteem will be the first to suffer.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The Hudson Post-Gazette, like most small-town newspapers, had always been the one place to get the kind of local news considered too boring or unimportant to be covered in the bigger papers of nearby cities.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2025
Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Children in these households often feel abandoned and unimportant, and their self-esteem will be the first to suffer.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The Hudson Post-Gazette, like most small-town newspapers, had always been the one place to get the kind of local news considered too boring or unimportant to be covered in the bigger papers of nearby cities.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2025
Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimportant
Adjective
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According to a statement from the Danville Police Department, the drivers of both vehicles suffered minor injuries, while two other passengers in the truck were unhurt.—
Rick Hurd,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The cab driver suffered minor back and neck injuries in the crash and claimed Zangrilli was drunk but the responding officer sent the inspector on his way, telling the cabbie to file an accident report at an NYPD precinct.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The foyer is often a small space, so a hall tree can be overbearing.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
2 Mar. 2025
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Have a small outdoor space but want to grow some plants and vegetables?—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But these little twinges the audience might feel about everyone being mortal only added, if anything, to the evening’s personal potency, and the vitality of a reconvening of the tribe that supported the Wilson sisters from the outset, along with strays picked up during the MTV years.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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The order’s vague framework has sparked concerns, particularly as Trump’s March 7, 2025, Crypto Summit is set to feature a narrow circle of industry elites, with little representation from diverse perspectives or consumer advocates.—
Tonya M. Evans,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Given this, there is no straightforward way to understand what a model is doing on an intuitive level, as from our perspective running inference on a model is nothing more than executing trillions of trivial operations such as addition and multiplication.—
Rahul Gudise,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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And figuring out that amount was not a trivial task.—
Jayson Stewart,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This makes any concessions congressional Democrats may be able to obtain from their Republican colleagues worthless.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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These pump-and-dump schemes artificially inflate stock prices, allowing the perpetrators to sell at a high price before the stock inevitably crashes, leaving investors with worthless shares.—
True Tamplin,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Trump sees Canada as an insignificant global player and weak neighbor, and incapable of winning a trade war with us, officials say.—
Axios,
Axios,
5 Mar. 2025
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That said, exit velocity cannot be faked, and sharing company with the likes of Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani isn’t insignificant.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Freud’s notion of remembering, the inexact reiteration of what came before, is where creativity emerges—that slight drift from the original that lets something unlikely slip in.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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The bill released Saturday will fund the government through Sept. 30 and provide a slight boost to defense spending while making a moderate cut to non-defense programs.—
Deirdre Walsh,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unimportant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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