unimportant

adjective

un·​im·​por·​tant ˌən-im-ˈpȯr-tᵊnt 

 especially Southern US and New England  -tənt,

-dənt

: lacking in importance : not important : minor, trivial

unimportant details

a relatively unimportant problem

unimportantly adverb

Synonyms

• fiddling
• foolish
• frivolous
• incidental
• inconsequential
• inconsiderable
• insignificant
• little
• Mickey Mouse
• minor
• minute
• negligible
• nugatory
• slight
• small
• small-fry
• trifling
• trivial

Examples of unimportant in a Sentence

we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct

Recent Examples on the Web

Everything else is unimportant compared to being honest about your love to people. —David Chiu, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025

In future decades and centuries, economic archaeologists will marvel that what was so unimportant was taken so seriously. —John Tamny, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025

Maintaining endowment strength is not unimportant, but spending power without academic freedom also buys you moral bankruptcy. —Michael S. Roth, Time, 28 Mar. 2025

Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office. —Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unimportant

• important