Meaning of unimportant in English

unimportant

adjective

/ˌʌn.ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/ us

/ˌʌn.ɪmˈpɔːr.t̬ənt/

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not important:

Staffing is still a relatively unimportant issue compared to our other problems.

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There's no point in arguing over something so unimportant.
These facts are unimportant in themselves , but if you put them together, they are more significant.
Don't get too preoccupied with unimportant details.
The education of girls was considered unimportant.
This problem is relatively unimportant when you consider other issues.

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Of little or less importance

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(Definition of unimportant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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unimportant

adjective

/ˌʌn·ɪmˈpɔr·tənt/

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not important:

The money we lost is relatively unimportant, but the emotional stress of being robbed is hard to get over.

(Definition of unimportant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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While the inclusion of names is perhaps quite a basic marker of ethnicity, it should not be considered unimportant.

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It is clear then that in many realistic situations the surface-tension effects are likely to be unimportant.

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The unconditional correlations are closer to those observed only when the intermediation shock is relatively unimportant.

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Even (seemingly) unimportant enacted laws change the status quo policy and have greater utility than dead important bills.

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Nor were his regular visits to church unimportant.

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No doubt it was cyclical too but that is unimportant.

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Non-nutrient constituents of the diet were considered to be relatively unimportant.

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By the 1990s taxes on domestic goods and services provided substantial percentages of total revenue, but individual income taxes remained relatively unimportant.

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It required moderation and consent that debate outside a basic faith was unimportant.

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This supports the notion that larger-scale motions are unimportant and that the flow is irrotational and likely to be self-similar.

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Nowhere does the theory of density dependence suggest that incentive structures are unimportant in group formation.

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But even language is not limited to its analytical structure and empirical facts, and the worldviews and values of cultures are not unimportant matters.

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The technologies that were deemed unimportant will be monitored.

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Not that gesture, sources and causes are unimportant in electroacoustic music.

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It is only the fact that waves decay due to dissipation and spherical spreading that makes them unimportant in most practical cases.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

不重要的，無足輕重的…

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