| 单词 | insignificant |
| 释义 | insignificant (once / 549 pages) adj When something is insignificant, it doesn't matter. The fact that your mom gets to school a half hour late becomes insignificant when she announces you're stopping for ice cream on the way home. The word signify, which is at the heart of insignificant, means "to mean." Significant means "meaningful." Add in- "not," and you have "not meaningful." A company can fire a worker from an insignificant job and still function. In a crisis, your feelings are insignificant; it is your actions that matter. WORD FAMILYinsignificant: insignificance, insignificantly+/co-sign: co-signed/countersign: countersignature, countersigned, countersigning, countersigns/insignificance: insignificances/sign: co-sign, countersign, signatory, signature, signed, signedly, signer, signify, signing, signs, undersign/signatory: signatories/signature: signatures/signed: unsigned/signer: signers/significance: significances/significant: insignificant, nonsignificant, significance, significantly/signification: significations/signifier: signifiers/signify: significant, signification, signified, signifier, signifies, signifying/signing: signings/undersign: undersigned, undersigning USAGE EXAMPLESDepartment of Defense saying in 2013 that the threat posed by the group was largely insignificant. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Even if that difference is so insignificant in the scheme of the whole world, she said, it is something. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) While Donald Trump’s wall does not exist, and may never exist, that does not mean it’s insignificant. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj signifying nothing insignificant sounds Syn meaningless, nonmeaningful having no meaning or direction or purpose 2adj of little importance or influence or power; of minor status a minor, insignificant bureaucrat Syn peanut minor of lesser importance or stature or rank 3adj devoid of importance, meaning, or force Syn|Ant unimportant unimportant not important meaningless, nonmeaningfulhaving no meaning or direction or purpose hole-and-corner, hole-in-cornerrelating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thinlacking substance or significance inappreciabletoo small to make a significant difference lighthaving little importance superficial, trivialof little substance or significance important, significant important in effect or meaning important, of importof great significance or value meaningfulhaving a meaning or purpose momentousof very great significance epoch-making, epochalhighly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shatteringsufficiently significant to affect the whole world evidential, evidentiaryserving as or based on evidence fundamental, profoundfar-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something largefairly large or important in effect; influential monumentalof outstanding significance noteworthy, remarkableworthy of notice probative, probatorytending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation operativeeffective; producing a desired effect portentous, prodigiousof momentous or ominous significance 4adj not worthy of notice Syn undistinguished unnoticeable not noticeable; not drawing attention |
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