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Definition: Unimportance |
UnimportanceNoun1. The state of being humble and unimportant. 2. The quality of not being important or worthy of note. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unimportance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: UnimportanceSynonyms: humbleness (n), obscureness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: importance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful). |
Unimportance | Noun: unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unimportance |
| Specialty definitions using "unimportance": JONES. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Unimportance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unimportance" is used about 23 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unimportance": unimportance for. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unimportance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vähäpätöisyys (insignificance, slightness, trivial nature), mitättömyys (insignificance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unwichtigkeit (pettiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jelentéktelenség (futility, immateriality, insignificance, insignificancy, irrelevance, irrelevancy, lightness, littleness, negligibility, paltriness, triviality), fontosság hiánya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cosa di nessuna importanza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuscansh (disesteem, disregard), neufrioose (inconsiderateness, unheedfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | importanceunay неважность. (various references) önemsizlik (indifference, insignificance, insignificancy, lightness, littleness, paltriness, puniness, slightness, smallness, triviality). (various references) tính chất không quan trọng, tính chất không đáng kể. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unimportance": unimportances. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "unimportance" (pronounced 'Un`im*por"tance'): importance, inductance, Omittance, Permittance, Pittance, Portance, Potance, Readmittance, remittance, self-importance, transmittance. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: counterman, enunciator, importance, numeration, precaution, unromantic. | |
-3 letters: ametropic, centurion, container, continuer, cremation, crenation, importune, manticore, mucronate, neutronic, nonimpact, nonmetric, pneumatic, pneumonia, pneumonic, preatomic, prenomina, prominent, protamine, runcinate, uncertain. | |
-4 letters: aconitum, anointer, anoretic, antiporn, anuretic, apocrine, apterium, atropine, caponier, coinmate, computer, continua, continue, coparent, copremia, coumarin, countian, courante, creation, entropic, eruption, impacter, impactor, inceptor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: unimportances. | |
+2 letters: pronunciamento. | |
+3 letters: countercampaign, pronunciamentos, uncomplimentary. | |
+4 letters: countercampaigns, countercomplaint, pronunciamentoes. | |
+5 letters: countercomplaints. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 69 6D 70 6F 72 74 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. -- .--. --- .-. - .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101001 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n i m p o r t a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0069 006D 0070 006F 0072 0074 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558075798281848667806971 |
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