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nonnegligible

nonnegligible

7.2
Large enough to be important and need attention
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɒnˈnɛɡlɪdʒəbl/
translation icon : no despreciable
  • We must consider the nonnegligible costs associated with the project.

Examples

  • Del Boca and Flinn (2012) show that a nonnegligible portion of households engage in noncooperative household allocation.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Under what circumstances would E GS be nonnegligible compared to a body's rest energy?

    Academic text (1999)

  • There is a nonnegligible difference in performance between the two models.

  • The study revealed a nonnegligible impact of pollution on public health.

Synonyms

important
vsnonnegligible
∞ 1.0

A person or thing that matters a lot

focuses on just meeting a noticeable threshold rather than great significance
significant
vsnonnegligible
∞ 2.5

Important and big enough to make a difference

focuses on being considered rather than producing effects
nontrivial
vsnonnegligible
2 7.8

Not simple and hard to do or understand

focuses on being large enough to matter rather than on effort or complexity

Antonyms

insignificant
104 4.1

Not important or too small to matter

negligible
31 5.6

Very small or unimportant and not worth worrying about

How Significant

major
∞ 1.0
substantial
394 5.0
significant
∞ 2.5
nonnegligible
7.2
small
∞ 1.0
negligible
31 5.6

Surface Forms

nonnegligible positive

Morphology

nonnegligible = negligible (transparent) = non + negligible

The productive prefix 'non-' simply negates the adjective 'negligible', yielding 'not negligible', which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word nonnegligible is made of non- meaning 'not' and negligible, which is related to neglect ('to ignore') and came to mean 'small enough to ignore'. So nonnegligible means 'not small enough to ignore', or 'important enough to matter'.