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Synonyms for unimportant
unim·por·tant
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
unimportant
Vain (Latin vanus, empty) keeps the etymological idea through all changes of meaning; a vain endeavor is empty of result, or of adequate power to produce a result, a vain pretension is empty or destitute of support, a vain person has a conceit that is empty or destitute of adequate cause or reason. That which is bootless, fruitless, or profitless fails to accomplish any valuable result; that which is abortive, ineffectual, or unavailing fails to accomplish a result that it was, or was supposed to be, adapted to accomplish. That which is useless, futile, or vain is inherently incapable of accomplishing a specified result. Useless, in the widest sense, signifies not of use for any valuable purpose, and is thus closely similar to valueless and worthless. Fruitless is more final than ineffectual, as applying to the sum or harvest of endeavor. That which is useless lacks actual fitness for a purpose; that which is vain lacks imaginable fitness. Compare VACANT; OSTENTATION; PRIDE.
Compare synonyms for UTILITY.
Synonyms:
abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthlessAntonyms:
adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy
Princeton's WordNet
unimportantadjective
not important
"a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
Synonyms:
insignificantAntonyms:
historic, primal, grave, great, alpha, of import, in-chief(ip), serious, cardinal, Copernican, essential, of the essence(p), distinguished, strategic, fundamental, burning(a), most-valuable, principal(a), important, measurable, primary(a), grievous, crucial, chief(a), big, all-important(a), outstanding, master(a), weighty, heavy, key, grand, consequential, main(a), all important(p), beta, eventful, centralinsignificant, unimportantadjective
devoid of importance, meaning, or force
Synonyms:
peanut, undistinguished, insignificantAntonyms:
beta, big, grand, burning(a), of the essence(p), eventful, strategic, primal, crucial, primary(a), weighty, chief(a), Copernican, great, consequential, master(a), most-valuable, heavy, central, important, of import, serious, cardinal, principal(a), all-important(a), historic, grave, all important(p), grievous, outstanding, distinguished, main(a), fundamental, measurable, key, essential, alpha, in-chief(ip)
Editors Contribution
chopped liver
undesirable or unappealing
he treated her like chopped liver.
Submitted by rinat on June 25, 2017floccinaucinihilipilification
rare. the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the english language).
this is a floccinaucinihilipilification thing
Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unimportantadjective
Synonyms:
insignificant, trivial, trifling, inconsiderable, small, slight, of no consequence, of no moment
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unimportantadjective
Synonyms:
immaterial, insignificant, trivial, paltry
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unimportant":
insignificant, irrelevant, immaterial, inconsequential, negligible, meaningless, minor, trivial
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2578 | null | |
#2673 | minor | |
#2964 | empty | |
#9013 | idle | |
#10226 | useless | |
#12511 | peanut | |
#12556 | trivial | |
#13150 | irrelevant | |
#13230 | unreal | |
#15690 | vain | |
#19590 | visionary | |
#19887 | meaningless | |
#19897 | negligible | |
#20267 | insignificant | |
#20769 | worthless | |
#26975 | futile | |
#32026 | unimportant | |
#38689 | shadowy | |
#41631 | immaterial | |
#48116 | fruitless | |
#55524 | deceitful | |
#55539 | unprofitable | |
#57684 | inconsequential | |
#60134 | baseless | |
#61666 | ineffectual | |
#69037 | trifling | |
#72180 | abortive | |
#90731 | unsatisfying | |
#94014 | vapid | |
#109464 | unavailing | |
#131081 | undistinguished | |
#131299 | unserviceable | |
#146779 | inconstant | |
#203636 | delusive | |
#244598 | unsubstantial | |
#245515 | nugatory | |
#291737 | profitless |
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It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to human material.
He (Sanders) said he was unimportant and it was all about the movement, and then it kind of escalated. ‘If you don’t support the movement, I don’t want your vote'... Obviously he’s become more adept at cultivating voters.” - New York Times, 7/3/15
Look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
The hard truth is that users are powerless and unimportant as individuals to Facebook.
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