INSIGNIFICANTLY Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

insignificantly

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as in microscopically

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Recent Examples of insignificantly If anything, this makes those insidious Fridays insignificantly safer than the state average for the period. — Mike McRae 08, New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2026 Lastly, but not at all insignificantly (as the project was his first breakthrough in the city), there’s the Condé Nast Cafeteria in Times Square. — Maya Chawla, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2026 While these might seem insignificantly small compared to the average density, gravitation causes the overdense regions to grow and attract matter into them over time, while the underdense regions similarly give up their matter to their more dense surroundings. — Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026

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The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.

— Guy German, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.

— Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026

Definition of microscopically

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Roman, however, can uniquely sift through Andromeda’s stars much more minutely because of its wider field of view.

— Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of minutely

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The company used this speed advantage (and, later, similar ones) to profit from infinitesimally brief pricing differences between exchanges, all while fulfilling clients’ orders to buy and sell on those exchanges.

— Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026

Definition of infinitesimally

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The continuous rails bend so imperceptibly that passengers feel nothing more than a smooth, butter-like glide across the water.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
The eggs are drizzled, almost imperceptibly, with honey that gives the dish fabulous depth.

— Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of imperceptibly

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After receiving treatment, Potapova returned for what proved to be the last three points, but could barely move.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The comedic play, which is set at a silent retreat, has the unique convention of having the majority of its characters barely speak, and rather rely on their physicality.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of barely

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Autonomous navigation Transcatheter closure is a minimally invasive technique that repairs structural heart defects without open-heart surgery.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
The only way to keep pushing forward was to have biweekly angioplasty surgery, a minimally invasive medical produce used to open blocked or narrowed heart arteries.

— Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of minimally

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There was a Bluetooth speaker on the ground connected invisibly to somebody’s phone, and, around halfway through the hang, the speaker started playing song after song by Drake.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026
But DellaPosta’s work also shows that political preferences may influence decisions about having children not because there’s something Republican about having kids, but because political affiliation invisibly guides how people live their life.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of invisibly

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Parents of friends would give Flash records from their collections, scarcely aware of what transformations their dusty music would undergo.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Roman will spend more than a quarter of its planned five-year primary mission observing this 10,000-light-year-wide region, which is so sprawling and thick with stars that previous telescopes have scarcely probed its depths.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2026

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