unimportant

adjective

un·​im·​por·​tant ˌən-im-ˈpȯr-tᵊnt How to pronounce unimportant (audio)
 especially Southern US and New England  -tənt,
-dənt
: lacking in importance : not important : minor, trivial
unimportant details
a relatively unimportant problem
unimportantly adverb

Examples of unimportant in a Sentence

we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct
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Benjamin Deneen, the paper’s lead author, tells Popular Science that in the early days of neuroscience, research tended to focus on neurons, treating other cells as relatively unimportant support structures. Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024 That’s not to say lawmakers haven’t repeatedly tinkered with its specifics, or that those changes have been unimportant. Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 On his New Heights podcast last month, Jason Kelce branded the football position unimportant. David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 This is a truly epic, widescreen landscape designed to put us fundamentally unimportant humans in our place. James Rampton, theweek, 24 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unimportant 

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unimportant was in 1750

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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimportant. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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