Synonyms for unimportant
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1. unimportant

   Vain (Latin vanus, empty) keeps the etymological idea through all changes of meaning; a vain endeavor is empty of result, or of adequate power to produce a result, a vain pretension is empty or destitute of support, a vain person has a conceit that is empty or destitute of adequate cause or reason. That which is bootless, fruitless, or profitless fails to accomplish any valuable result; that which is abortive, ineffectual, or unavailing fails to accomplish a result that it was, or was supposed to be, adapted to accomplish. That which is useless, futile, or vain is inherently incapable of accomplishing a specified result. Useless, in the widest sense, signifies not of use for any valuable purpose, and is thus closely similar to valueless and worthless. Fruitless is more final than ineffectual, as applying to the sum or harvest of endeavor. That which is useless lacks actual fitness for a purpose; that which is vain lacks imaginable fitness. Compare VACANT; OSTENTATION; PRIDE.

   Compare synonyms for UTILITY.

   Synonyms:
   abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthless

   Antonyms:
   adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy

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1. unimportantadjective

   not important

   "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

   Synonyms:
   insignificant

   Antonyms:
   historic, primal, grave, great, alpha, of import, in-chief(ip), serious, cardinal, Copernican, essential, of the essence(p), distinguished, strategic, fundamental, burning(a), most-valuable, principal(a), important, measurable, primary(a), grievous, crucial, chief(a), big, all-important(a), outstanding, master(a), weighty, heavy, key, grand, consequential, main(a), all important(p), beta, eventful, central

2. insignificant, unimportantadjective

   devoid of importance, meaning, or force

   Synonyms:
   peanut, undistinguished, insignificant

   Antonyms:
   beta, big, grand, burning(a), of the essence(p), eventful, strategic, primal, crucial, primary(a), weighty, chief(a), Copernican, great, consequential, master(a), most-valuable, heavy, central, important, of import, serious, cardinal, principal(a), all-important(a), historic, grave, all important(p), grievous, outstanding, distinguished, main(a), fundamental, measurable, key, essential, alpha, in-chief(ip)

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1. chopped liver

   undesirable or unappealing

   he treated her like chopped liver.

   Submitted by rinat on June 25, 2017  

2. floccinaucinihilipilification

   rare. the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the english language).

   this is a floccinaucinihilipilification thing

   Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

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1. unimportantadjective

   Synonyms:
   insignificant, trivial, trifling, inconsiderable, small, slight, of no consequence, of no moment

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1. unimportantadjective

   Synonyms:
   immaterial, insignificant, trivial, paltry

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1. List of paraphrases for "unimportant":

   insignificant, irrelevant, immaterial, inconsequential, negligible, meaningless, minor, trivial

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1. Albert Einstein:

   It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to human material.

2. Janos Arnay:

   It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

3. Javier Puig Saura:

   Basically, taking pictures is an excuse to meet people so I use the camera as a pretext, for me to trigger the camera is the last act on a long series of actions. I like to find a true little story, something unimportant but real as life.

4. Josef Stalin:

   Comrades, I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this: who will count the votes, and how.

5. Alexander Woollcott:

   There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.