ignorable

Examples

• All

• If the country can't rally behind infrastructure development even in the face of horrifyingly deadly bridge collapses, engineering has truly become an ignorable commodity.

  Academic text (2011)

• An otherwise ignorable fact... until the unthinkable occurred.

  Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

• In the beginning, it was ignorable, but now in the third season, it's getting a little too dominant to avoid.

  Blog text (20)

• That's not, you know, an ignorable amount of heat.

• The above is eminently ignorable.

  Blog text (32)

• There was only a faint buzz like the humming of insects, ignorable if she worked at it.

  Fiction book (1992)

• There is a lightness, a lightening, that comes along with misery: vast portions of the world are shorn off, suddenly ignorable.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Some have put this all down to race, and perhaps race is a factor, but really I think the main reason that the likes of Necro, etc., received such scant attention in comparison was that their music was ultimately ignorable, whereas Tyler's is totally the opposite.

  Blog text (29)

• Impressions about whether a person is reliable, pleasant, ignorable, or compatible form in thirty to thirty-five seconds, and these impressions rely on non-verbal cues.

  Academic text (2012)

• The instructions were so vague that they felt ignorable to most of the team.

Synonyms

I

irrelevant

vsignorable

355 3.6

Not related to the subject people are discussing or to the main point

is broader, meaning it can be set aside as not of concern

U

unimportant

vsignorable

54 1.9

Not worth attention or notice

emphasizes being safely disregarded rather than only lacking importance

I

inconsequential

vsignorable

29 7.7

Not important and not likely to make a difference

is about being dismissible rather than only lacking practical effect

I

immaterial

vsignorable

19 7.2

Not important or relevant to a situation

focuses more on being able to be set aside than strict irrelevance

I

impertinent

vsignorable

4 7.3

Not related to the topic being discussed

is the general idea of being able to be disregarded without rudeness

I

inconsiderable

vsignorable

3 6.8

Too small or not important enough to matter

is broader, applying to both small matters and irrelevant ones

I

inapposite

vsignorable

1 9.9

Not suitable for a situation and therefore not important to the topic

is about being dismissible rather than about being simply inappropriate

I

inconsequent

vsignorable

9.1

Not important or serious compared with other things

is about being able to be ignored rather than merely small in value

U

unmomentous

vsignorable

6.8

Not important and having little effect on events

leans more toward being dismissible rather than lacking large impact

I

inappreciable

vsignorable

9.2

Too small to notice or to change anything

covers being dismissible for any reason, not only tiny size

Antonyms

I

important

∞ 1.0

A person or thing that matters a lot

N

noteworthy

37 4.2

Worth paying attention to because it is important or interesting

How Important

essential

50 2.4

important

∞ 1.0

ignorable

1 5.6

trivial

121 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology