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Inconsiderable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Too small or unimportant to merit attention or consideration; trivial.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Too trivial or unimportant to be worthy of attention.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not considerable; not worthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; small.

Synonyms Petty, slight, trifling, immaterial.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. too small or unimportant to merit attention

Word Usage

"The profits of £3 per year may have seemed "inconsiderable" to the report's author, but such earnings would have made a substantial contribution to a laboring family's income and may have been the only cash income earned by the family (see Chapter 2, n."

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

unimportant small trivial negligible insignificant

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

considerable appreciable proportionate insignificant prodigious lesser moderate negligible pecuniary goodly