IGNORABLE Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

ignorable

adjective

Definition of ignorable

as in harmless

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Recent Examples of ignorable In an interview with Willamette Week, Doran likened Visible Cloaks’ approach to Brian Eno’s concept of ambient music being both ignorable and interesting, holding one’s attention by not holding it at all. — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 22 May 2026

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Adjective

Attackers use it to control who reaches their malicious content while showing something harmless to other visitors.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Shortly before midnight, the squad determined the bags were harmless and contained no explosives, Anderson said.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of harmless

Adjective

That said, this does not mean the Detect, Respond and Recover pillars of the NIST CSF are unimportant.

— Andrew Ginter, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Wright agrees that the findings shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that omega-3s are unimportant for the brain.

— Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 14 July 2026

Definition of unimportant

Adjective

While no postponements or cancellations have been announced, security teams are undoubtedly assessing what level of risk is tolerable for the titans of the global economy.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Or good people have other reasons for finding that bad thing to be tolerable.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of tolerable

Adjective

To non-historians, the difference of a few years might seem rather trivial.

— Mike McRae October 15, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
But in Season 4, the balance is off, and the fictional president’s parallels to our real-life war-starting, ally-betraying POTUS only make the former’s plight feel that much more trivial.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of trivial

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