Synonyms: unimportant
Definition: not important
Usage: a relatively unimportant feature of the system; the question seems unimportant
Similar words: inconsequent, inconsequential
Definition: lacking worth or importance
Usage: his work seems trivial and inconsequential; the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet
Similar words: immaterial, indifferent
Definition: (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
Usage: whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent); what others think is altogether indifferent to him
Similar words: trivial, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, lilliputian, little, footling, fiddling
Definition: (informal) small and of little importance
Usage: a fiddling sum of money; a footling gesture; our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war; a little (or small) matter; a dispute over niggling details; limited to petty enterprises; piffling efforts; giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
Similar words: lightweight
Definition: having no importance or influence
Usage: a lightweight intellect
Similar words: nickel-and-dime, small-time
Definition: of minor importance
Usage: a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room; a small-time actor
Similar words: potty
Definition: (British informal) trivial
Usage: potty little details
Synonyms: insignificant, unimportant
Definition: devoid of importance, meaning, or force
Similar words: hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner
Definition: relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life
Usage: a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community- H.G.Wells
Similar words: tenuous, thin, fragile, flimsy, slight
Definition: lacking substance or significance
Usage: slight evidence; a tenuous argument; a thin plot; a fragile claim to fame
Similar words: inappreciable
Definition: too small to make a significant difference
Usage: inappreciable fluctuations in temperature
Similar words: light
Definition: having little importance
Usage: losing his job was no light matter
Similar words: superficial, trivial
Definition: of little substance or significance
Usage: a few superficial editorial changes; only trivial objections