unimportant
adjective
un·im·por·tant
ˌən-im-ˈpȯr-tᵊnt 
especially Southern US and New England -tənt,
-dənt
unimportantly
adverb
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Examples of unimportant in a Sentence
we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct
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In the latter, an anthropology student is consumed by her research on a rare female pharaoh that her colleagues dismiss as unimportant.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Children in these households often feel abandoned and unimportant, and their self-esteem will be the first to suffer.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The Hudson Post-Gazette, like most small-town newspapers, had always been the one place to get the kind of local news considered too boring or unimportant to be covered in the bigger papers of nearby cities.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2025
Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Children in these households often feel abandoned and unimportant, and their self-esteem will be the first to suffer.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The Hudson Post-Gazette, like most small-town newspapers, had always been the one place to get the kind of local news considered too boring or unimportant to be covered in the bigger papers of nearby cities.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2025
Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimportant. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.
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