Roget's Thesaurus

#643. Unimportance

Nouns

unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality. triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness etc. adj.; poverty; smallness etc. 32; vanity etc. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference etc. 866; no object. nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter etc. adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose [Fr.]; child's play, kinderspiel. toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air; yankee notions [U.S.]. trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; leather or prunello; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse etc. (inutility) 645; scum etc. (dirt) 653. joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge etc. (unmeaning) 517; fiddlestick, fiddlestick end; pack of nonsense, mere farce. straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent [U.S.]. minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill. nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus [Lat.]; flash in the pan etc. (impotence) 158; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482.

Verbs

be unimportant etc. adj.; not matter etc. 642; go for nothing, matter nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not matter a straw etc. n.. make light of etc. (underestimate) 483; catch at straws etc. (overestimate) 482.

Adjectives

unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance etc. 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent. subordinate etc. (inferior) 34; mediocre etc. (average) 29; passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary etc. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable. trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile etc. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak etc. 160; powerless etc. 158; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water. poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible etc. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopenny, halfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U.S.]. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw etc. n.; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina [It.]; vain etc. (useless) 645.

Adverbs

slightly etc. adj.; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for aught one cares.

Interjections

no matter!, pish!, tush!, tut!, pshaw!, pugh!, pooh, pooh-pooh!, fudge!, bosh!, humbug!, fiddlestick, fiddlestick end!, fiddlededee!, never mind!, n'importe! [Fr.], what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for', stuff!, nonsense!, stuff and nonsense!

Phrases

magno conatu magnas nugas [Lat.]; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle [Fr.]; it matters not, it does not signify; it is of no consequence, it is of no importance; elephantus non capit murem [Lat.]; tempete dans un verre d'eau [Fr.].