Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not important; insignificant or petty.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not important; not of great moment; of little account.
  • Not assuming or marked by airs of importance or dignity.

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  • adjective petty; not important or noteworthy

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not important
  • adjective devoid of importance, meaning, or force

Etymologies

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un- +‎ important

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Examples

  • Whether the process of creation took a single week or billions of years is relatively unimportant from a philosophical or theological standpoint.

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • The MSM has become irrelevant to say Van Jones is unimportant, Rev. Wright is unimportant, Ayers in unimportant, Van Jones is unimportant, increasing the size of government and spending is not important.

    Trippi: GOP trying to turn Obama into another Jimmy Carter 2009

  • The MSM has become irreleveant to say Van Jones is unimportant, Rev. Wright is unimportant, Ayers in unimportant, Van Jones is unimportant, increasing the size of government and spending is not important.

    Trippi: GOP trying to turn Obama into another Jimmy Carter 2009

  • As someone noted above, the false positives only come out of the total positives – the example, though not unimportant, is kinda … wrong.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bacterial Fingerprints and Bayes’ Law 2010

  • The notion that the worshiper covers the floor surface, making its material composition acoustically unimportant is false.

    Rip up those carpets! 2009

  • The hope that they will not notice the age-guidance figure, or think it unimportant, is unfounded.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Banishing theology as insignificant and unimportant is no longer a legitimate option in the current post-modern age, when all voices demand an equal if not impartial hearing.

    Answering Questions about ID 2006

  • One often has the feeling that the more trivial and unimportant is the reason for a conflict, the more probable it is for it to degenerate into something serious.

    Totem And Task 2006

  • Banishing theology as insignificant and unimportant is no longer a legitimate option in the current post-modern age, when all voices demand an equal if not impartial hearing.

    Answering Questions about ID 2006

  • This is not to say that feedback in unimportant -- far from it.

    last night's debauchery 2004

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