negligible

adjective

neg·li·gi·ble | \ˈne-gli-jə-bəl

Definition of negligible

: so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling a negligible error last year sales were negligible a negligible risk a negligible effect

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Other Words from negligible

negligibility \ ˌne-gli-jə-ˈbi-lə-tē

\ noun

negligibly \ ˈne-gli-jə-blē

\ adverb

Examples of negligible in a Sentence

A negligible amount of damage was done to the vehicle. The price difference was negligible.

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In at least 14 of the states where Republican senators are up in 2020, the chances of a successful Democratic challenge are negligible. — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, "The Blue Wave Breaks Gently," 9 Nov. 2018 Olivier Rabin, who leads the science division at WADA, said that screening methods will eventually become so robust that doping will be negligible. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte broke doping rules. It happens far more than you think.," 24 July 2018 Standard & Poor’s and Fitch also currently rate Italian debt two notches above junk, so the risk of a deeper crisis is hardly negligible. — Simon Nixon, WSJ, "Italy Still Has Time to Avert a Disaster," 30 May 2018 Of course, risks of violence at school are not negligible. — New York Times, "Why Campus Shootings Are So Shocking: School Is the ‘Safest Place’ for a Child," 22 May 2018 An 11 percentage point relative boost in shooting when on a hit-streak is not negligible. — Adam Sanjurjo, Scientific American, "Momentum Isn’t Magic—Vindicating the Hot Hand with the Mathematics of Streaks," 28 Mar. 2018 Meanwhile the agency’s supply warehouse on Puerto Rico had zero cots, zero tarps and an almost negligible stockpile of food and water, its limited contents depleted during another storm two weeks earlier. — Laignee Barron, Time, "FEMA Says It Was Significantly Unprepared When Hurricane Maria Hit Puerto Rico," 13 July 2018 He's forced — yet again — to argue that a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome being separated from her parents is negligible and a distraction. — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, "Corey Lewandowski’s predictably idiotic Down-syndrome gaffe," 20 June 2018 All the tiny things that make the pencil slightly better than another may be negligible to you, sort of like the iPhone 8 versus the 8 Plus. — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, "A Brow Pencil That’s a Little Bit Better Than Everything Else Out There," 7 June 2018

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