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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments. Bp. Wilkins.

3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.

Synonyms: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small; inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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