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unimportant

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːtənt//
  • United States//ˌʌnɪmˈpɔɹtənt//
  • //ˌʌnɪmˈpo(ː)ɹtənt//
  • //ˌʌnɪmˈpoə.tənt//

petty; not important or noteworthy

adjective

  1. 1

    petty; not important or noteworthy

    It’s to the credit of this remarkable writer that those absences seem unimportant beside what is so rousingly present.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English important English unimportant From un- + important.

Forms

comparative
more unimportant
superlative
most unimportant
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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