Negligible

English

Adjective

Negligible (comparative more Negligible, superlative most Negligible)

1. Able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

   We found errors, but their effects were negligible.

   • 2011 Phil McNulty Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City

   Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:tiny

Related terms

• negligent
• neglected

Thesaurus

back-burner, cursory, depthless, dinky, dispensable, fat, few, footling, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, little, low, meager, miniature, minor, minute, niggling, no great shakes, nonessential, not vital, nugatory, off, outside, paltry, petit, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, shallow, short, skin-deep, slender, slight, slim, small, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, worthless

Translations

able to be ignored or excluded

Chinese: Mandarin: 可忽视的 (kě hūshì de) Czech: zanedbatelný (cs) m. Danish: ubetydelig (da) Dutch: verwaarloosbaar (nl) Finnish: merkityksetön (fi), vähäpätöinen (fi), mitätön (fi) French: négligeable (fr) German: vernachlässigbar (de)

Greek: αμελητέος (el) Japanese: 取るに足らない (とるにたらない, toru ni taranai) Polish: nieistotny m., -a f., -e n. Portuguese: insignificante (pt) Russian: пренебрежимый (ru) (prenebrežímyj) m. Serbian: занемарљив (sr) (zanemárljiv) m. Spanish: insignificante (es) Swedish: försumbar (sv)