Word Meanings - INSIGNIFICANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and

Additional info about word: INSIGNIFICANT

1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments. Bp. Wilkins. 3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person. Syn. -- Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small; inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSIGNIFICANT)

• Immaterial
• Spiritual
• incorporeal
• unimportant
• insignificant
• trivial
• trifling
• unessential
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• illiberal
• mean
• petty
• paltry
• dirty
• shabby
• dwarf
• minute
• feeble
• narrow
• slender
• fine
• inferior

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INSIGNIFICANT)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to INSIGNIFICANT)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.