negligible

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  1. adjective Not significant or important enough to be worth considering; trifling.

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  • The affect on marine mammals would be negligible, the Navy said.
  • Our beige reality is that a lot of music is wallpaperly negligible, the thing being I'm in the business of occasionally sifting through that sea of "meh," tacking numbers and criticisms to it. —  Cokemachineglow.com
  • The effect on marine mammals would be negligible, the Navy said. —  WalesOnline - Home
  • The audience was negligible, and I had the distinct impression that the film was being dumped (interestingly it was the same theatre that Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET would be dumped into two summers later). —  davekehr.com
  • This method guarantees that the weight of the weave is light and negligible, the weft is thin and not bulky on the head, the hair will not tangle at the tips and the weave-on will have a flat and flawless finish that makes it undetectable. —  Vanguard News
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  1. Latin neglegere, negligere, to neglect; see neglect + -ible.

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  1. = French négligeable, from negliger, from Latin neglegere, negligere, neglect: see neglect.
 

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/ˈnɛglɪdʒɪbl/
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