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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unimportantadjective

    not important

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

  2. insignificant, unimportantadjective

    devoid of importance, meaning, or force

Wiktionary

  1. unimportantadjective

    petty; not important or noteworthy

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unimportantadjective

    Assuming no airs of dignity.

    A free, unimportant, natural, easy manner; diverting others just as we diverted ourselves. Alexander Pope, to Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. unimportant

    Unimportant refers to something or someone that holds no significance, relevance, or compelling interest in a particular context or situation. It is something that lacks influence or value, and carries no weight or necessity for consideration or attention.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unimportant in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unimportant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of unimportant in a Sentence

  1. Trump Jr.:

    No, I didn't know anything about the meeting, the New York Times must have been a very important -- must have been a very unimportant meeting. ... No, nobody told me. I didn't know noth -- The New York Times's a very unimportant -- sounded like a very unimportant meeting. Because I never even heard about The New York Times.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality:

    In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

  5. William S. Burroughs:

    Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

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