as in minor
lacking importance
we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct
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Recent Examples of unimportant
That level of discipline is not common in retail, especially when outsiders think the business is unimportant.
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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
Those will be underlying, unimportant issues for much of the year.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Throughout season 1, Belly has a brief dalliance with Cam Cameron, a sweet, vaguely unimportant local boy.
—Meg Walters, Glamour, 31 July 2025
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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
Those will be underlying, unimportant issues for much of the year.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Throughout season 1, Belly has a brief dalliance with Cam Cameron, a sweet, vaguely unimportant local boy.
—Meg Walters, Glamour, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimportant
Adjective
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Russell’s crash in 2023 showed that a minor mistake can wipe you off the podium.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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In susceptible people, the immune system reacts too strongly to minor exposures, creating chronic inflammation.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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By a rough count, Flagg played in approximately six different lineups, including some small-ball looks with Dwight Powell at center.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Oct. 2025
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While there is acknowledgement that smaller teams, such as Norway’s Valarenga, could be on the receiving end of heavy defeats with the shift in format, the benefits of seeing top seeds clash early in the competition mean more overall interest.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Shane Hubbard, a UW-Madison research scientist specializing in damage and loss estimation from disasters, said that misunderstandings of what type of insurance offers the most protection result in homeowners being left with hefty bills and little government assistance.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The clues have been there from the start, the little touches that aligned Grasso’s bifurcated personality with Tom and Robbie’s.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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For Washington, this was no trivial matter.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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Afterward, a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) investigation concluded that the economic impact was small, but not trivial.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The San Francisco 49ers are running themselves right out of games with all these worthless carries by Christian McCaffrey.—
Michael Salfino,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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But these glasses are worthless without a mobile phone.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Probably not, but those HBO dramas, one a reasonably large success and the other a large failure, represent a not-insignificant portion of Scorsese’s output from the past 15 years.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Oct. 2025
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The taxes and fees for these awards aren’t insignificant.—
Meghan Hunter,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This marked a slight increase on figures from August, during which time Moscow claimed to have downed 2,786 Ukrainian drones at an average rate of nearly 90 per day.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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International undergraduate enrollment stayed the same, with a slight increase in international freshmen, Miner said.—
David Ferrara,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unimportant. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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