Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: insignificant
IPA transcription: [,ɪnsɪɡnj'ɪfɪkənt]
Pronunciations of insignificant
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: insignificant, undistinguished
    Meaning: not worthy of notice
  • Synonyms: insignificant
    Meaning: signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"
  • Synonyms: insignificant, peanut
    Meaning: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
Usage examples
  • What a dull, dirty, insignificant spot it is!
  • The motive of the man was so insignificant, his purpose so atrocious.
  • He had once been there; there were many people, but insignificant people.
  • No action was too small, no emotion too insignificant, for his uncompromising realism.
  • Beside this utter carelessness of life, the guilt of the Flower-Master becomes insignificant.
  • If such persons address her in any flattering or insignificant terms, she should take good care not to answer them a word.
  • This dream she repeats twice in the course of a few weeks, with--as the lady notices--quite insignificant and very senseless changes.
  • Never had they appeared so insignificant and paltry as then, when he sniffed over them with the air of one disdainfully doing a disagreeable task.
  • Of the vegetable kingdom, there was not a single representative; the most meager of Arctic plants, the most insignificant of lichens, could obtain no hold upon that stony waste.
  • Margaret was inexpressibly relieved to find that her mother's anxiety and distress was lowered to this point, so insignificant to herself, and on which she could do so much to help.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Eureka Rebellion, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Universe, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording World War I, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Three Laws of Robotics, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Smashing Pumpkins, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording An Inconvenient Truth, License CC BY-SA 4.0