adjective
definition
Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.
example
Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.
definition
Without meaning; not signifying anything.
Examples of insignificant in a Sentence
Lying to her, even about something this insignificant, felt awful.
He was there to represent spectatordom, and help make this seemingly insignificant event one with the removal of the gods of Troy.
It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came to.
Our whole life together is too perfect to let anything as insignificant as him interfere with it.
The emoluments of the office are confined to certain insignificant admiralty droits.
Maybe there were just too many deaths that winter to make news of one insignificant passing.
He was a man of insignificant character, with a taste for artificial verse.
They were for the most part quite insignificant trifles, but did not seem so to the mother or to the father either, now that he read this diary about his children for the first time.
To Bolkonski so many people appeared contemptible and insignificant creatures, and he so longed to find in someone the living ideal of that perfection toward which he strove, that he readily believed that in Speranski he had found this ideal of a perfectly rational and virtuous man.
The manufacturing industries of Cuba have never been more than insignificant as compared with what they might be.
Many various, indifferent, and insignificant people appeared before him.
This is insignificant compared to the size of the currents which several authorities have calculated from considerations as to terrestrial magnetism.
The imports of foreign metals in the rough and of coal are steadily increasing, while the exports, never otherwise than insignificant, show no advance.
Until the middle of the 19th century it was an insignificant fishing village.
He picks fights about insignificant issues.
These sayings were prepared in the inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to drawing room.
Uruguayans find an insignificant place in commerce.
Navigation in either is insignificant.
Perpendicular insertions are insignificant.
They are generally of insignificant thickness.
Note any issue, no matter how insignificant, you think may matter.
The results are lukewarm, with five of the 10 participants failing to complete the study and statistically insignificant improvements in the other five participants, though some improvements are noted.
In the 4th century Megara recovered some measure of prosperity, but played an insignificant part in politics, its only notable move being the participation in the final conflict against Philip II.
From the general formula (2), if A be the area of aperture, 102 = A2 / x2 f (7) The formation of a sharp image of the radiant point requires that the illumination become insignificant when, n attain small values, and this insignificance can only arise as a consequence of discrepancies of phase among the secondary waves from various parts of the aperture.
The recent deposits of the Transvaal may be considered to be insignificant.
It may be advisable to define exactly what is meant by " hypertrophy," as the term is often used in a loose and insignificant sense.
The living organism may be regarded as constantly engaged in a warfare with these silent and apparently insignificant messengers of destruction and death, with the result that too often the battle ends in favour of the attacking enemy.
The " Albertine " system plays a comparatively insignificant part in the annual flood rise of the White Nile, but to its waters are due the maintenance of a constant supply to this river throughout the year.
At Wijk another bifurcation takes place, the broad Lek diverging on the left to join the Maas, while the "Kromme Rijn" to the right is comparatively insignificant.
Many of the riparian potentates derived the bulk of their revenue from this source, and it is calculated that in the 18th century the Rhine yielded a total revenue of X200,000, in spite of the comparatively insignificant amount of the shipping.
His other efforts in this latter direction are either slight and almost insignificant in scope, or, as in the case of the somewhat famous Ecossaise, deriving all their interest from being personal libels.
Kensington was then an insignificant village, but the arrival of the court soon caused it to grow in importance.
When the temperature of outside and inside air becomes equal or nearly so natural ventilation ceases or becomes insignificant.
This led to a mistaken idea that De Robeck's ships might have succeeded had they renewed their attack at once in spite of losses; the damage which they had done to the batteries had been almost insignificant, and they had not got within 5 m.
Any influence on transparency which may be exercised by the temperature or salinity of the water is quite insignificant.
In point of absolute mass they are insignificant compared with the abundance and variety of potassiferous silicates, which occur everywhere in the earth's crust; orthoclase (potash felspar) and potash mica may be quoted as prominent examples.
Nevertheless these two insignificant works, as points to hold and lines to defend on an otherwise featureless battlefield, became the centres of gravity of the battle.
The manufactures of the island are insignificant.
The nave has only two bays and the choir is insignificant.
Letourneur, a harmless insignificant person, was his admirer and follower.
In any other context mitochondrial antibodies are clinically insignificant.
It makes anything the rest of us may suffer seem pretty insignificant.
The capacitive reactance Xc becomes very large and the inductive reactance Xl becomes insignificant.
While this might seem insignificant, it can create widespread problems once other students follow suit.
At times, any signs of progress may seem small and almost insignificant, but researchers are working diligently to find a cause, and possibly a cure, for what many believe has become an epidemic among our children.
They want to get a clear picture of the individual, not something that is untrue, exaggerated or otherwise insignificant to them.
The Italian troubles, which had entailed the exile of Eugenius IV., were still insignificant in comparison with those conjured up by the fanatics of the Council in Basel.
This is not inconsistent with the law of gravitation, for such estimates as have been made of planetary perturbations due to stars give results which are insignificant in comparison with quantities at present measurable.
The chapel of St Bartholomew, although externally insignificant, dates from the earlier part of the 11th century, and is counted among the most interesting buildings in Westphalia; it was restored in 1852.
His use of the veto in 1882 in the cases of a Chinese Immigration Bill (prohibiting immigration of Chinese for twenty years) and a River and Harbour Bill (appropriating over $18,000,000, to be expended on many insignificant as well as important streams) confirmed the favourable impression which had been made.