molehill

[mohl-hil] / ˈmoʊlˌhɪl /

NOUN

inconsiderableness

Synonyms

WEAK

immateriality inconsequence inconsequentiality indifference meanness negligibility negligibleness nothingness paltriness smallness trifling matter triviality trivialness worthlessness

NOUN

insignificance

Synonyms

STRONG

immateriality inconsequence indifference meanness nothingness paltriness pettiness smallness triviality worthlessness

WEAK

inconsequentiality negligibility trifling matter

NOUN

mound

Synonyms

STRONG

anthill bank drift dune embankment hillock knoll mass mountain pile rise shock stack tumulus

Antonyms

WEAK

depression ditch valley

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"Walking downhill, whenever your foot slides into the very end of your shoe is when it maybe gives me a bit of bother but it's totally fine. A mountain out of a molehill."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Could we be making a mountain out of a molehill?

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2024

Shame on people for making a mountain out of a molehill.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

They take the molehill, and they try to turn it into a mountain, yeah.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

molehill

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