Classes Voluntary Powers Prospective Volition Subservience Ends Unimportance
Unimportance
Nouns
unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality. triviality, levity, frivolity
paltriness etc. adj.
poverty
smallness etc. Smallness
vanity etc. (uselessness) Inutility
matter of indifference etc. Indifference
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
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) Inutility
scum etc. (dirt) Uncleanness . joke, jest, snap of the fingers
fudge etc. (unmeaning) [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness
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
flash in the pan etc. (impotence) Impotence
much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) Overestimation .
Verbs
be unimportant etc. adj.
not matter etc. Importance
go for nothing, matter nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing
not matter a straw etc. n.. make light of etc. (underestimate) Underestimation
catch at straws etc. (overestimate) Overestimation .
Adjectives
unimportant
of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance etc. Importance
immaterial
unessential, nonessential
indifferent. subordinate etc. (inferior) Inferiority
mediocre etc. (average) Mean
passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace
uneventful, mere, common
ordinary etc. (habitual) Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence]
inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable. trifling, trivial
slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle
puerile etc. (foolish) Imbecility. Folly
airy, shallow
weak etc. Weakness
powerless etc. Impotence
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) Contempt
sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, 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
vain etc. (useless) Inutility .
Adverbs
slightly etc. adj.
rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for aught one cares.
Int
no matter!, pish!, tush!, tut!, pshaw! , pugh!, pooh, pooh-pooh!, fudge!, bosh!, humbug!, fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! , fiddlededee!, never mind!, 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
it matters not, it does not signify
it is of no consequence, it is of no importance