Synonyms for unimportant
unim·por·tant

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1. unimportant

   Vain (Latin vanus, empty) keeps the etymological idea through all changes of meaning; a vain endeavor is empty of result, or of adequate power to produce a result, a vain pretension is empty or destitute of support, a vain person has a conceit that is empty or destitute of adequate cause or reason. That which is bootless, fruitless, or profitless fails to accomplish any valuable result; that which is abortive, ineffectual, or unavailing fails to accomplish a result that it was, or was supposed to be, adapted to accomplish. That which is useless, futile, or vain is inherently incapable of accomplishing a specified result. Useless, in the widest sense, signifies not of use for any valuable purpose, and is thus closely similar to valueless and worthless. Fruitless is more final than ineffectual, as applying to the sum or harvest of endeavor. That which is useless lacks actual fitness for a purpose; that which is vain lacks imaginable fitness. Compare VACANT; OSTENTATION; PRIDE.

   Compare synonyms for UTILITY.

   Synonyms:
   abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthless

   Antonyms:
   adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy

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1. unimportantadjective

   not important

   "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

   Synonyms:
   insignificant

   Antonyms:
   historic, primal, grave, great, alpha, of import, in-chief(ip), serious, cardinal, Copernican, essential, of the essence(p), distinguished, strategic, fundamental, burning(a), most-valuable, principal(a), important, measurable, primary(a), grievous, crucial, chief(a), big, all-important(a), outstanding, master(a), weighty, heavy, key, grand, consequential, main(a), all important(p), beta, eventful, central

2. insignificant, unimportantadjective

   devoid of importance, meaning, or force

   Synonyms:
   peanut, undistinguished, insignificant

   Antonyms:
   beta, big, grand, burning(a), of the essence(p), eventful, strategic, primal, crucial, primary(a), weighty, chief(a), Copernican, great, consequential, master(a), most-valuable, heavy, central, important, of import, serious, cardinal, principal(a), all-important(a), historic, grave, all important(p), grievous, outstanding, distinguished, main(a), fundamental, measurable, key, essential, alpha, in-chief(ip)

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1. chopped liver

   undesirable or unappealing

   he treated her like chopped liver.

   Submitted by rinat on June 25, 2017  

2. floccinaucinihilipilification

   rare. the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the english language).

   this is a floccinaucinihilipilification thing

   Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

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1. unimportantadjective

   Synonyms:
   insignificant, trivial, trifling, inconsiderable, small, slight, of no consequence, of no moment

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1. unimportantadjective

   Synonyms:
   immaterial, insignificant, trivial, paltry

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1. List of paraphrases for "unimportant":

   insignificant, irrelevant, immaterial, inconsequential, negligible, meaningless, minor, trivial

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How to use unimportant in a sentence?

1. Janos Arnay:

   It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

2. Uri Orbach:

   In an era where the unimportant trumps the important, he made things abundantly clear, with the clearest voice. May his memory be clear, and no, that is not a mistake. (on Uri Elitzur)

3. Greg Guma:

   He (Sanders) said he was unimportant and it was all about the movement, and then it kind of escalated. ‘If you don’t support the movement, I don’t want your vote'... Obviously he’s become more adept at cultivating voters.” - New York Times, 7/3/15

4. Siva Vaidhyanathan:

   The hard truth is that users are powerless and unimportant as individuals to Facebook.

5. Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154:

   If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.