unimportant

adjective

un·​im·​por·​tant ˌən-im-ˈpȯr-tᵊnt 

 especially Southern US and New England  -tənt,

-dənt

: lacking in importance : not important : minor, trivial

unimportant details

a relatively unimportant problem

unimportantly adverb

Synonyms

• minor
• small
• little
• trivial
• worthless
• insignificant
• slight

Examples of unimportant in a Sentence

we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct

Recent Examples on the Web

After Princeton and military service, he was sent to the Paris bureau, where his scoops and reviews forced designers to alter their view of Women’s Wear Daily as unimportant. —James Fallon, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025

Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease. —Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025

That level of discipline is not common in retail, especially when outsiders think the business is unimportant. —Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

Most of them managed to encrypt a few unimportant Windows data files and logs while the antivirus was analyzing their behavior. —PC Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unimportant

• important