"unimportant" meaning in English

See unimportant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːtənt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔɹtənt/ [General-American], /ˌʌnɪmˈpo(ː)ɹtənt/ (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), /ˌʌnɪmˈpoə.tənt/ (note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) Audio: en-us-unimportant.ogg [US] Forms: more unimportant [comparative], most unimportant [superlative]
Etymology: un- + important Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|important}} un- + important Head templates: {{en-adj}} unimportant (comparative more unimportant, superlative most unimportant)
  1. petty; not important or noteworthy Synonyms: insignificant Derived forms: unimportantly Related terms: unimportance Translations (not important or noteworthy): маловажен (malovažen) (Bulgarian), irrelevant (Catalan), intranscendent (Catalan), 不重要 (bù zhòngyào) (Chinese Mandarin), nedůležitý (Czech), uvigtig (Danish), onbelangrijk (Dutch), изи (izi) (Eastern Mari), malgrava (Esperanto), vähämerkityksellinen (Finnish), vähäinen (Finnish), sans importance (French), intranscendente (Galician), irrelevante (Galician), unwichtig (German), 重要でない (jūyō denai) (alt: じゅうようでない) (Japanese), korokororiki (Maori), kūrapa (Maori), iti (Maori), uviktig (Norwegian Bokmål), uviktig (Norwegian Nynorsk), nieważny [masculine] (Polish), bez znaczenia [masculine] (Polish), desimportante (Portuguese), neimportant (Romanian), нева́жный (nevážnyj) (Russian), неважан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), nevažan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), sin importancia (Spanish), irrelevante (Spanish), intrascendente (Spanish), oviktig (Swedish), önemsiz (Turkish), неважли́вий (nevažlývyj) (Ukrainian)

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      "sense": "not important or noteworthy",
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      "sense": "not important or noteworthy",
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      "sense": "not important or noteworthy",
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