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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Starting on this note reduces the chances that your soon-to-be ex will feel dismissed or unimportant. Julia Ries, SELF, 7 Feb. 2025 In the latter, an anthropology student is consumed by her research on a rare female pharaoh that her colleagues dismiss as unimportant. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025 Children in these households often feel abandoned and unimportant, and their self-esteem will be the first to suffer. Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025 The Hudson Post-Gazette, like most small-town newspapers, had always been the one place to get the kind of local news considered too boring or unimportant to be covered in the bigger papers of nearby cities. John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2025 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 Feb. 2025.

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