Definition of Insignificant

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Insignificant

Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile.

Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.

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Insignificant Quotations

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia Woolf

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer

Insignificant Translations

insignificant in Dutch is onbeduidend, beuzelachtig, luizig
insignificant in French is insignifiant, de peu de poids
insignificant in German is bedeutungslos
insignificant in Italian is irrilevante, insignificante
insignificant in Norwegian is ubetydelig
insignificant in Portuguese is insignificante
insignificant in Spanish is insignificante

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