negligible

negligible

English

Adjective

negligible (comparative more negligible, superlative most negligible)

1. Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

   We found errors, but their effects were negligible.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.

Synonyms

• ignorable
• neglectable
• slight
• trivial
• See also Thesaurus:tiny

Antonyms

• considerable
• important
• significant
• innegligible
• unignorable

Related terms

• neglect
• negligence
• negligent

Translations

able to be ignored or excluded

Catalan: negligible (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 可忽视的 (kě hūshì de), 微不足道 (zh) Czech: zanedbatelný m Danish: ubetydelig Dutch: verwaarloosbaar (nl) Esperanto: neglektinda Finnish: merkityksetön (fi), vähäpätöinen (fi), mitätön (fi), yhdentekevä French: négligeable (fr) German: vernachlässigbar (de) Greek: αμελητέος (el) (amelitéos)

Hungarian: elhanyagolható (hu) Italian: insignificante (it), trascurabile (it) Japanese: 些細 (ja) (sasai), つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 取るに足らない (toru ni taranai) Polish: nieistotny (pl) m Portuguese: insignificante (pt), negligenciável Romanian: neglijabil (ro), neînsemnat (ro),, insignifiant (ro) Russian: пренебрежи́мый m (prenebrežímyj) Serbo-Croatian: занемарљив m (zanemárljiv) Spanish: insignificante (es), desdeñable (es) Swedish: försumbar (sv)