unimportant

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ important.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔːtənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔɹtənt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpo(ː)ɹtənt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɪmˈpoə.tənt/

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Adjective

unimportant (comparative more unimportant, superlative most unimportant)

1. petty; not important or noteworthy

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insignificant

   Antonym: important

Derived terms

• unimportantly

Related terms

• unimportance

Translations

not important or noteworthy

• Bulgarian: маловажен (bg) (malovažen)
• Catalan: irrelevant, intranscendent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不重要 (bù zhòngyào)

• Czech: nedůležitý (cs)
• Danish: uvigtig
• Dutch: onbelangrijk (nl)
• Esperanto: malgrava
• Finnish: vähämerkityksellinen, vähäinen (fi)
• French: sans importance
• Galician: intranscendente, irrelevante (gl)
• German: unwichtig (de)
• Japanese: 重要でない (ja) (じゅうようでない, jūyō denai)
• Maori: korokororiki, kūrapa, iti
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: изи (izi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uviktig

  Nynorsk: uviktig

• Polish: nieważny (pl) m, bez znaczenia m
• Portuguese: desimportante (pt)
• Romanian: neimportant (ro)
• Russian: нева́жный (ru) (nevážnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неважан

  Roman: nevažan (sh)

• Spanish: sin importancia, irrelevante (es), intrascendente (es)
• Swedish: oviktig (sv)
• Turkish: önemsiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: неважли́вий (nevažlývyj)