Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being unimportant; want of importance, consequence, weight, value, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of importance; triviality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of lack of
importance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being humble and unimportant
- noun the quality of not being important or worthy of note
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Examples
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There are people actually bloogging of the "unimportance" in Haiti & the nonstop coverage on the news stations.
Haitians wait for daylight for full look at quake devastation 2010
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This facility was not for the top leaders of American government; it was for those whose level of relative "unimportance" dictated that they probably wouldn't be able to get out in time but who still rated protection afforded no ordinary citizen.
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Especially since the film distinctly acknowledges that many of today's top CEOs know the truth about the unimportance of a college education.
Lisa Nielsen: Empowered Parents Are the Solution to Ending This Race to Nowhere Lisa Nielsen 2011
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For example, Matthew sneered earlier today about the unimportance of the Secretary of Commerce.
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Because of the relative size and unimportance of female roles, they are usually cast with non-Equity women (although occasionally, female lead roles are cast non-Equity while small roles are awarded to Equity males).
George Heymont: They Are Women, Hear Them Roar George Heymont 2010
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Especially since the film distinctly acknowledges that many of today's top CEOs know the truth about the unimportance of a college education.
Lisa Nielsen: Empowered Parents Are the Solution to Ending This Race to Nowhere Lisa Nielsen 2011
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Matt, after demonstrating that the Commerce Secretary is a position of the utmost unimportance, and doing so in a funny fashion, why should we care who gets the post?
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The blog entry is about the unimportance of the President in exercising leadership for space exploration.
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This is what life tends to do to all of us, make us feel our own unimportance, powerlessness, foolishness, and it's Paul's great virtue that he can stand up to his feelings about having been made to look like a fool in his own eyes and in the eyes of people whose good opinion he wants and needs.
What work is. A review of Paul Blart: Mall Cop by way of a gigantic spoiler 2009
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Yet, with Alexander Berkman, this solemnity, this willingness to sacrifice his own life and all his dreams for the ethical grandeur of his dream, for what he conceived to be the good of all his brothers in all the world, in a terroristic dead of microscopic unimportance, remains an incontestable human fact.
Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards 2010
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