most inconsiderable

ADJECTIVE

of no significance

Synonyms

WEAK

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

WEAK

consequential considerable important significant

ADJECTIVE

petty

Synonyms

WEAK

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

We pounce upon them as they bob up, convinced that even the most inconsiderable of them may have its profound significance—that the essential may be hidden in the trivial.

From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by Nathan, George Jean

The party which believed in the right of the South, but which doubted or disbelieved its eventual success, appears to me to have been most inconsiderable up to the final stages of the war.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various

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 Townsend, George Fyler

Our Galaxy is but one, and perhaps one of the most inconsiderable, of the clusters which go to the constitution of this ultimate, Universal belt or band.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.