English > unimportant: 2 senses > adjective 1Meaning | not important. |
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Examples | - "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"
- "the question seems unimportant"
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Attribute of | importance | The quality of being important and worthy of note |
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Narrower | fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial | (informal) small and of little importance |
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immaterial, indifferent | (often followed by 'to') lacking importance |
inconsequent, inconsequential | lacking worth or importance |
lightweight | Having no importance or influence |
nickel-and-dime, small-time | Of minor importance |
potty | (British informal) trivial |
See also | inessential, unessential | not basic or fundamental |
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insignificant, unimportant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force |
meaningless, nonmeaningful | Having no meaning / meaning or direction or purpose |
Opposite | important, of import | Of great significance / significance or value |
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Catalan | no important, sense importància |
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Nouns | unimportance | the quality of not being important or worthy of note |
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unimportance | the state of being humble and unimportant |