Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unimportant
IPA transcription: [ənɪmp'ɔɹtənt]
Pronunciations of unimportant
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unimportant
    Meaning: not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
Usage examples
  • What is common is not necessarily unimportant.
  • This coincidence cannot be accidental, nor is it an unimportant matter.
  • It is a waste of time even to undertake to sift the important from the unimportant.
  • The ideal speaker makes his big words stand out like mountain peaks; his unimportant words are submerged like stream-beds.
  • There was something foreign about the affair, for the Park is rarely used in the morning except by unimportant people who love to be healthy, poor and wise.
  • In this chapter, however, we are considering only one form of emphasis: that of applying force to the important word and subordinating the unimportant words.
  • Read the selections on pages 50, 51, 52, 53 and 54, devoting special attention to emphasizing the important words or phrases and subordinating the unimportant ones.
  • Here he and his partner had in a few months of strenuous labor taken from the narrow and unimportant rivulet more wealth than most could save in a lifetime of patient and thrifty toil.
  • Now, although this cannot be justified in our own impartial judgement, yet it proves that we do really recognise the validity of the categorical imperative and (with all respect for it) only allow ourselves a few exceptions, which we think unimportant and forced from us.
  • If there were demagogues here and there among them, seeking merely to create a balance of power for bargain and sale, they were unimportant in number, and only of local influence, and soon became deserters. There was no mistaking the earnestness of the body of this faction.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Harvey Milk, License CC BY-SA 4.0