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Definition: Insignificant |
InsignificantAdjective1. Not large enough to consider or notice. 2. Not worthy of notice. 3. Signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall. 4. Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians". 5. Not important or noteworthy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "insignificant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: InsignificantSynonyms: peanut (adj), trivial (adj), undistinguished (adj), unimportant (adj), unmeaning (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: significant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Littleness | Impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial; infinitesimal, homoeopathic; atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular; rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic, vestigial. |
Unimportance | Subordinate; (inferior); mediocre; (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary; (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable. |
Unmeaningness | Inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant; insignificant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Listen, you insignificant, square-toed, pimpled-headed spy. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin' else (Dazed and Confused; writing credit: Richard Linklater) Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a really neat idea (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) Now, when you were born, nay, spawned by the Dark Prince himself, did that rat bastard forget to give you a hug before he sent you along your way? Because you can't just let two good nurses go on account of feeling small and insignificant. And besides, with your money, you ought to be able to keep a little man tucked away in the closet, and bring him out whenever you wanna knock him around, huh (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) | |
Clever | Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Insignificant Other (2002) | |
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John Adams | My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. |
Seneca | Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The commission, or command of any magistrate, where he has no authority, being as void and insignificant, as that of any private man; the difference between the one and the other, being that the magistrate has some authority so far, and to such ends, and the private man has none at all: for it is not the commission, but the authority, that gives the right of acting; and against the laws there can be no authority. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Upon the whole, however, there was something torpid and insignificant, in the appearance at least, of Jean Valjean |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | During this process all these elements which he deemed common and insignificant fell out of the scene |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came to. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The difference between 600 calories and 340 calories is only 260 calories and may seem insignificant. (references) | |
But they are known to have relatively high false-positive rates, and they may identify a greater number of medically insignificant tumors. (references) | ||
A bothersome but relatively insignificant side effect of DMSO treatments is a garlic-like taste and odor on the breath and skin that may last up to 72 hours after treatment. (references) | ||
Business | Exports of electric power systems are insignificant. (references) | |
Domestic production of medical devices is insignificant. (references) | ||
Imports from other country sources have remained insignificant. (references) | ||
Economic History | Philippines | Local production is currently insignificant. (references) |
Philippines | Their sales to this market of other major sporting goods were very insignificant. (references) | |
Moldova | The year 2000 saw an increase, albeit insignificant in both sugar beet and sugar. (references) | |
Minorities | Bulgaria | There only were a few ethnic Turkish, Pomak, and Romani officers in the military, and an insignificant number of high-ranking officers of the Muslim faith. (references) |
Political Economy | DENMARK | Danish government support for agricultural export promotion programs is insignificant. (references) |
THAILAND | Irregularities in police and public prosecutor procedures occasionally have resulted in the substitution of insignificant defendants for major ones and the disappearance of vital evidence. (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | Only insignificant portions of total imports are subject to quantitative restrictions (QRs) under the negative list. (references) |
Women | Australia | In the past, the occurrence of female genital mutilation (FGM), which is criticized widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health, was insignificant. (references) |
Worker Rights | Afghanistan | An insignificant fraction of the work force has ever labored in an industrial setting. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed. |
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| "Insignificant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.16% of the time. "Insignificant" is used about 372 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.16% | 354 | 15,153 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.84% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 372 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "insignificant": feel insignificant ♦ insignificant matter ♦ insignificant person ♦ insignificant zero. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "insignificant": insignificant-looking, insignificant-seeming. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
insignificant | 6 |
insignificant others | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "insignificant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i parëndësishëm (dispensable, exiguous, immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, light, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, one horse, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, small, small time, tenuous, tin, trivial, unessential, unimportant), i papeshë (ethereal, unsubstantial, weightless), i pakuptim (absurd, empty, inane, meaningless, pointless, senseless, unnamed, vacuous), pa shumë vlerë. (various references) | |
Arabic | متواضع (humble, inconsiderable, little, modest, negligible, slight, small, trivial, unassuming, unpretentious), حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), عديم الأهمية (inconsequence, pettiness, trivial, triviality), ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, little, lowbrow, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, sketchy, slender, sparse, stingy, thin, wretched), ثانوي (bye, inferior, marginal, minor, petty, secondary, side, sub, unimportant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), нищожен (exiguous, footling, miserable, naught, negligible, nominal, nugatory, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, pygmy, shabby, trifling, trivial), маловажен (footling, futile, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, petty, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four, unimportant), безсъдържателен (empty, idle, inane, jejune, meager, meagre, pithless, sterile, unmeaning, vacuous, vain, watery), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references) | |
Chinese | 無關緊要 (indifferent), 意义 (meaningless, Pointless), 微不足" (negligible). (various references) | |
Czech | zanedbatelný (negligible), nezávažný (not serious, slight), nepatrný (derisory, exiguous, imperceptible, minor, minute, negligible, petty, scant, scanty, slight, slim, small, thin, trifling), bezvýznamný (inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, null, pointless, poor, small time, trifling). (various references) | |
Danish | ikke betydende nul (insignificant zero, unsignificant zero), denne forskel er af ringe betydning (this difference is insignificant). (various references) | |
Dutch | onbeduidend (meaningless, minor, trifling), luizig (minor, trifling), beuzelachtig (minor, trifling). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sensignifa (meaningless), nesignifa, bagatela (trifling). (various references) | |
Finnish | vähäpätöinen (of little importance, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportant), tyhjänpäiväinen (trifling), mitätön (inconsiderable trifling, invalid, not valid, trivial, void), merkityksetön (of no account). (various references) | |
French | insignifiant (inconsiderable). (various references) | |
German | unbedeutend (fractional, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsiderably, minimal, minor, negligible, nonsignificant, obscure, of no account, petit, pettily, petty, piddling, trifling, trivial, trivially, unimportant), bedeutungslos (immaterial, irrelevant, meaningless, of little moment, unimportant). (various references) | |
Greek | μηδαμινόσ (minimal, nugatory, null and void, paltry, petty, piccaroon, trifling, trivial), ασήμαντοσ (fiddling, immaterial, inconsequential, minor, negligible, niggling, nobody, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, piddling, potty, purportless, slight, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant), ασήμαντος (minor, puny, trivial), αναξιόλογοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא משמעותי, אפסי (negligible, nugatory, null, zeroed), זעום (inconsiderable, meagre, scant, scanty, slender, slight, spare), חסר חשיבות (inconsequential), בלתי חשוב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jelentés nélküli, jelentéktelen (baubling, dinkey, dinky, exiguous, fiddle-faddle, footling, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsiderable, irrelevant, jerkwater, light, minor, minor details, negligible, niggling, nugatory, null, obscure, of no great importance, of no moment, paltry, petty, piddling, scrubby, slight, small time, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, unimportant, venial). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak berarti (trivial), sepele (trivial, unimportant), guram (chicken flea, dim, dull, hazy), cuai (trivial, unimportant), anggal (light, lighty loaded, slack). (various references) | |
Italian | irrilevante (immaterial, peddling, trifling), insignificante (inexpressive, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, potty, slight, trifling, trivial). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 零細 (paltry, trifling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すずめのなみ (drop in the bucket), なもない (obscure, unknown), き"しょう (few, gold general, little, proximity), びびたる (slight, small), びび (slight), まっしょうてき (minor, trivial), つまらない (boring, trifling), れいさい (a tiny bit, annual festival, paltry, regular festival, trifling), やすっぽい (cheap-looking, tawdry), けいび (defense, guard, little, policing, security, slight). (various references) | |
Korean | 하찮은 (sleazy, trivial). (various references) | |
Malay | tiada berarti (meaningless, minor). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ubetydelig (fractional). (various references) | |
Papiamen | insignifikante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | insignificantay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insignificante (bald, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, scrubby, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, wispy). (various references) | |
Romanian | infim (inappreciable, infinitesimal, little, tiny), nesemnificativ, neimportant (immaterial, minor, naught, unimportant), neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, piffling, slender, slight, small, trifling, trivial), minor (infant, lesser, minor), fãrã importanţã (inconsiderable, of no interest, of no moment, peddling, trifling, trivial). (various references) | |
Russian | невзрачный (homely, plain, unpresentable), незначащий, незначительный (exiguous, imperceptible, importless, inconsiderable, light, little, minor, minute, negligible, nonsignificant, of no account, of small account, outside, paltry, poky, puny, pygmy, remote, slight, small time, small-time, tenuous, trivial), маловажный (petty). (various references) | |
Scottish | suarach (of little account, of no repute, trifling), spailpean (fop; vain). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neznatan (inconsiderable, little, negligible, twopenny-halfpenny, unsubstantial), beznačajan (fiddling, immaterial, irrelative, irrelevant, nugatory, peddling, pointless, trifling, trivial, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant). (various references) | |
Spanish | insignificante (fiddling, inconsiderable, small, trifling, trivial, twopenny, unimportant). (various references) | |
Swedish | betydelselös (importless, inconsequent, inconsequential, jerkwater, of no importance, straw, unimportant). (various references) | |
Turkish | silik (meek, retiring, weak), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), cüzi, anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ujypsyz (tiny). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small, trivial), мізерний (bare, beggarly, feeble, miserable, naught, nominal, outside, paltry, pitiable, pokey, poky), беззмістовний (bald, barren, blank, empty, inane, matterless, sapless, vapid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tầm thường đáng khinh vô nghĩa, không quan trọng (here, jerkwater, minor, trifling, unimportant). (various references) | |
Welsh | tila (feeble, puny), distadl (abject, base, low, mean), dinod (obscure). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | humile, humilem, humiles, humili, humilia, humilibus, humilior, humiliora, humiliorem, humiliores, humilis, humilium, humillima, minuta, minutis, minutum, pusilla, pusillae, pusilli, pusillis, pusillo, pusillorum, pusillos, pusillum, pusillus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "insignificant": insignificantly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "insignificant" (pronounced i'nsi'gnyi"fikunt) |
| 7 | -i" f i k u n t | significant. |
| 5 | -i k u n t | applicant, Fabricant. |
| 4 | -k u n t | lubricant, piquant, supplicant, vacant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-g-i-i-i-i-n-n-n-s-t" | |
-2 letters: significant. | |
-3 letters: financings, instancing. | |
-4 letters: financing, incanting. | |
-5 letters: cannings, fainting, incasing, incising, inciting, insignia, isatinic, sainting, scanning, scanting, staining, tannings. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-g-i-i-i-i-n-n-n-s-t" | |
+2 letters: insignificantly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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