insignificant

English

Etymology

From in- (“not”) +‎ significant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧sig‧nif‧i‧cant

Adjective

insignificant (comparative more insignificant, superlative most insignificant)

1. Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

   Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.

2. Without meaning; not signifying anything.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insignificant

Antonyms

• significant

Derived terms

• insignificance
• insignificantly

Translations

not significant; not important

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: খাকদর খাক (bn) (khakdor khak)
• Bulgarian: незначителен (bg) (neznačitelen)
• Catalan: insignificant (ca)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無意義／无意义 (zh) (wúyìyì), 無關緊要／无关紧要 (zh) (wúguān jǐnyào), 無足重輕／无足重轻 (wúzúzhòngqīng)

• Czech: nevýznamný
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: onbelangrijk (nl), onbelangrijke (nl)
• Finnish: mitätön (fi), merkityksetön (fi), samantekevä (fi), vähäpätöinen (fi)
• French: insignifiant (fr)
• Galician: insignificante
• German: bedeutungslos (de), unbedeutend (de)
• Greek: ασήμαντος (el) (asímantos)
• Hungarian: jelentéktelen (hu)
• Italian: insignificante (it), irrilevante (it), nullo (it)
• Japanese: 些細な (ja) (ささいな, sasai na), 無意味な (ja) (むいみな, muimi na)
• Khmer: មិនសំខាន់ (mɨn sɑmkʰan), មិនគួរឱ្យកត់សម្គាល់ (mɨn kuə aoy kɑt sɑmkoal)
• Korean: 하찮은 (hachaneun)
• Latin: perexiguus
• Maori: whetowheto, hauwarea, hanganoa
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: изи (izi)

• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: insignificant
• Polish: nieistotny (pl), błahy (pl), błahy (pl)
• Portuguese: insignificante (pt)
• Romanian: nesemnificant, nesemnificativ (ro), neimportant (ro)
• Russian: незначи́тельный (ru) (neznačítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: безначајан, beznačajan (sh)
• Spanish: insignificante (es), oscuro (es), desestimable
• Swedish: obetydlig (sv), betydelselös (sv)
• Turkish: anlamsız (tr), (dated) ehemmiyetsiz (tr), manasız (tr), önemsiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: незначни́й (neznačnýj)

Catalan

Adjective

insignificant m or f (masculine and feminine plural insignificants)

1. insignificant (not important)

   Antonym: significant

Related terms

• insignificança

Further reading

• “insignificant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “insignificant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “insignificant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “insignificant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Occitan

Adjective

insignificant m (feminine singular insignificanta, masculine plural insignificants, feminine plural insignificantas)

1. insignificant (not important)

   Antonym: significant

Related terms

• insignificança

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 568.
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 345.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian insignificante.

Adjective

insignificant m or n (feminine singular insignificantă, masculine plural insignificanți, feminine and neuter plural insignificante)

1. insignificant

Declension

Declension of insignificant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	insignificant		insignificantă	insignificanți	insignificante
	definite	insignificantul		insignificanta	insignificanții	insignificantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	insignificant		insignificante	insignificanți	insignificante
	definite	insignificantului		insignificantei	insignificanților	insignificantelor