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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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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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 Yes, by cosmological error margins, everything that can be touched, felt, or seen is pretty much negligible. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, "Dark matter halos may leave twinkling wake in galaxies," 31 May 2018 The Houston Texans use dynamic pricing for individual game tickets, but the effect on fans is relatively negligible because the Texans sell 67,000 season tickets, spokeswoman Amy Palcic said. — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, "Astros ticket buyers notice dynamic prices after World Series win," 24 May 2018 So the gains from a partial deal will be negligible and Iran may well sooner or later restart its nuclear programme. — The Economist, "Scrapping the Iran deal won’t do anyone any good," 12 May 2018 There will be negligible legislating by the next Congress, so ballots cast this November will be most important as validations or repudiations of the harmonizing voices of Trump, Pence, Arpaio and the like. — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "George Will Calls ‘Repulsive’ Pence Worse Than Trump," 10 May 2018 After struggling for years and reeling under heavy losses because of near-negligible sales and poor acceptance, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has finally started to get noticed in India. — Pankaj Radhe, Detroit Free Press, "Jeep Compass puts FCA's foot in the door of growing India market," 16 Apr. 2018

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