Antonyms for insignificant
ˌɪn sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kəntin·signif·i·cant

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1. insignificantadjective

   Antonyms:
   significant

2. insignificantadjective

   Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.

   Antonyms:
   significant

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. insignificant

   Antonyms:
   abundant, ample, big, broad, bulky, capacious, coarse, colossal, commodious, considerable, enormous, extensive, gigantic, grand, great, huge, immense, large, long, massive, spacious, vast, wide

   Synonyms:
   brief, diminutive, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, limited, little, mean, microscopic, minute, narrow, paltry, petty, scanty, short, slender, slight, small, tiny, trifling, trivial

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.7 / 6 votes

1. insignificant, undistinguishedadjective

   not worthy of notice

   Antonyms:
   significant, remarkable, probatory, epoch-making, probative, profound, major, monumental, noticeable, operative, fundamental, earthshaking, momentous, large, evidential, epochal, important, world-shattering, world-shaking, evidentiary, meaningful, prodigious, noteworthy, portentous

   Synonyms:
   peanut, undistinguished, unimportant

2. insignificantadjective

   signifying nothing

   "insignificant sounds"

   Antonyms:
   epoch-making, fundamental, remarkable, monumental, world-shaking, evidentiary, evidential, operative, meaningful, significant, noticeable, important, large, profound, probative, momentous, major, epochal, noteworthy, portentous, prodigious, probatory, earthshaking, world-shattering

   Synonyms:
   peanut, undistinguished, unimportant

3. insignificant, peanutadjective

   of little importance or influence or power; of minor status

   "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"

   Antonyms:
   evidentiary, momentous, noteworthy, prodigious, world-shaking, probative, probatory, noticeable, remarkable, earthshaking, fundamental, portentous, profound, important, monumental, operative, world-shattering, major, meaningful, epoch-making, epochal, significant, large, evidential

   Synonyms:
   peanut, undistinguished, unimportant

4. insignificant, unimportantadjective

   devoid of importance, meaning, or force

   Antonyms:
   significant, profound, world-shattering, operative, evidentiary, probative, large, meaningful, noteworthy, epoch-making, momentous, fundamental, monumental, important, world-shaking, noticeable, remarkable, major, prodigious, probatory, portentous, evidential, earthshaking, epochal

   Synonyms:
   peanut, undistinguished, unimportant

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. insignificantnoun

   Synonyms:
   meaningless, unimportant, immaterial, petty, trivial, paltry

How to use insignificant in a sentence?

1. Grace Slick:

   Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

2. Bill Hare:

   In the long run the US has to be in the game and has to reduce emissions, otherwise we won't get to the Paris goals, but in the short run it's not a catastrophe. It's not insignificant, but it's not a catastrophe.

3. David Keating:

   I don't think there are any efficiency gains from doing it this way -- the accounting headaches are not insignificant having been on that end of trying to report stuff like this, it seems like a big hassle.

4. Jonathan Karl:

   The question of banning the import of oil and gas from Russia, it is not insignificant. We actually take in more petroleum from Russia then we do from Saudi Arabia. It's extraordinary, George, for all the sanctions that have been imposed, and they have been unprecedented on Russia, to sanction everything but the thing that drives our economy.

5. Goa Kerle:

   Don 't let the insignificant positive side of wrong trap you. Even wrong has a positive aspect. Choose right with a significant positive side.

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