Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not significant or important enough to be worth considering; trifling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable or admitting of being neglected or disregarded; neglectable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of notice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
ignored orexcluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
- adjective not worth considering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Officials tell us that the amount of anthrax found in the mail was what they call negligible, that it actualy required two tests to even find it, so they don't think it's a large amount.
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We are in negligible credit card debt compared to others with four or five times the income.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2008 » October 2008
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Besides, Ireland is really not so negligible from the commercial-theatrical point of view as some of our more despondent patriots seem to suppose.
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For less invasive procedures such as normal dentistry the risk is described as "negligible."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew Porter 2011
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Cooper's reward for the killing was described as "negligible" in court.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Those that we've consolidated are closed, in general, were long-term negligible producers of either a return on capital or any type of operating profit.
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No one wants to work with him, no one can stand him, but without him, the show is even more negligible, which is why they keep him around.
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The contribution of high networth individuals in the fund is expected to be negligible, which is traditional in corporate private equity funds such as this.
Tata Capital Growth Raises $200 million Divya Guha of Mint 2011
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"In my experience, bodies leak a negligible amount of fluid, but you may want to put a plastic sheet down, just in case."
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For the purposes of English history his chronicles are entirely negligible, which is the reason why they have been allowed to remain unpublished and in oblivion.
The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912
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