unimportant
adjective
, especially Southern US and New England -tənt, -dənt\
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Synonyms & Antonyms for unimportant
Synonyms
fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, slight, small, small-fry, trifling, trivial
Antonyms
big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, unfrivolous, weighty
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For the absence of public conversation only suggests the issue is unimportant. — Mike Anthony, courant.com, "Mike Anthony: Connecticut is at the heart of a transgender athlete debate that is difficult to explore, let alone solve," 11 Aug. 2019 Whether the trade-offs are made to reduce costs or because certain elements were deemed unimportant, over their history, all three current console makers have released multiple machines that killed various features. — Sam Byford, The Verge, "A brief history of cutdown game consoles," 11 July 2019 The fire took on mythic status, and errors of fact became unimportant to the story’s obvious meaning. — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, "The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969," 19 June 2019 Compared to the sheer desperation of the narrator’s frame of mind, the details of the murder feel incidental, unimportant. — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, "Natalia Ginzburg’s Radical Clarity," 5 Aug. 2019 This is a very boring and unimportant day in a string of similar ones. — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, "Can a 27-year-old learn to drive in Boston? I was determined to find out," 30 July 2019 While other goals were considered at least moderately important by majorities of Americans, about half called a military presence and space colonies unimportant. — Anchorage Daily News, "Poll: Asteroid watch more urgent than Mars trip," 21 June 2019 Not unlike Vice Media, Homegrown is especially known for covering social topics considered taboo or unimportant by mainstream outlets, such as LGBTQ identity, female sexuality, and body image. — Aria Thaker, Quartz at Work, "How Indian media company Homegrown imploded in the wake of #MeToo," 11 June 2019 That the play’s sensibilities are rooted in the last century is unimportant. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "From the Archives: 35 years ago ‘Big River’ started flowing in La Jolla," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unimportant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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