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insignificance

/in-sig-nif-i-kuhns/US // ˌɪn sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kəns //

微不足道,无足轻重,微不足道的,无关紧要

Related Words

paltriness苍白,悸动,苍白无力,肥胖triviality小事一桩,微不足道,小事,微不足道的小事pettiness娇气,小气,娇弱,琐事nothingness虚无缥缈,虚无飘渺,虚无主义,虚空inconsequence后果,不重要,不起眼,不重要的事情smallness小国,小巧,小规模,小型indifference冷漠,漠不关心,漠视,淡漠meanness卑鄙无耻,卑劣,卑鄙,刻薄worthlessness一文不值,不值一提,一文不名,不值钱molehill鼹鼠山,鼹鼠丘,鼹鼠山庄,鼹鼠坡immateriality非物质性,非物质,非物质的,非物质文化遗产inconsequentiality无关紧要,无效性,不确定性,无效negligibility可忽略不计,忽略不计,可忽略不计的,可忽略的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noununimportance
Synonyms
immateriality非物质性,非物质,非物质的,非物质文化遗产inconsequence后果,不重要,不起眼,不重要的事情indifference冷漠,漠不关心,漠视,淡漠meanness卑鄙无耻,卑劣,卑鄙,刻薄molehill鼹鼠山,鼹鼠丘,鼹鼠山庄,鼹鼠坡nothingness虚无缥缈,虚无飘渺,虚无主义,虚空paltriness苍白,悸动,苍白无力,肥胖pettiness娇气,小气,娇弱,琐事smallness小国,小巧,小规模,小型triviality小事一桩,微不足道,小事,微不足道的小事worthlessness一文不值,不值一提,一文不名,不值钱inconsequentiality无关紧要,无效性,不确定性,无效negligibility可忽略不计,忽略不计,可忽略不计的,可忽略的trifling matter琐事,屁大点事,屁事,屁大点的事

Examples

  • If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs.

  • No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

  • Somehow those emails that had seemed so important last week paled to insignificance today.

  • Not to be one of them has become a sign of social insignificance.

  • But back to the pastor: His theological insignificance notwithstanding, his threat is a most dangerous development.

  • The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.

  • Her plain purple coat and wide Leghorn hat, with black ribbons, had the effect not of elegance, but of insignificance.

  • Indeed, the old Latin communities, with the exception of Tibur and Prneste, had sunk into insignificance.

  • Never in all his life had Tom felt his own insignificance as he did now.

  • They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.

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