most inconsiderable

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of no significance adj.
petty adj.

ADJECTIVE

of no significance

Synonyms

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casual dinky entry-level exiguous immaterial inadequate inappreciable inconsequent insignificant insufficient light little measly minor negligible paltry petty picayune puny runt scanty shoestring skimpy small small potatoes small-time trifling trivial two-bit unconsidered unimportant wimpy worthless

Antonyms

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consequential considerable important significant

ADJECTIVE

petty

Synonyms

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base casual cheap contemptible frivolous inconsequent inessential inferior irrelevant junior lesser light little lower measly minor narrow-minded negligible nickel-and-dime niggling nugatory of no account paltry peanut penny-ante pettifogging picayune piddling scratch secondary shabby shallow shoestring slight small small-minded subordinate trifling two-bit unimportant

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most inconsiderable

In the Milky Way system, in which Earth is one of the most inconsiderable planets, star dust and gas contain as much matter as all the known stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most unhappily a technical error, into which even the most inconsiderable painter would not now fall, has deprived posterity of one half of Poussin's labors.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

She had the simplest tastes, the most inconsiderable desires.

From Old Crow by Alice Brown

The tribute paid out of their herds to the King, which is not the most inconsiderable of his revenues, is one cow in ten every three years.

From A Voyage to Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson

He greatly lamented his fate, saying, "Woe is me! that I, who can wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish myself from this spider, the most inconsiderable of insects!"

From Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by George Fyler Townsend