Meanings
comparative more inconsiderable · superlative most inconsiderable
- Too unimportant to be worthy of attention.
There will be inconsiderable rises in British Railways day return fares in the London Area; those priced at 2s. and over are unchanged, as are the ordinary single fares.
1954 October, “Notes and News: London Fares Increase”, in Railway Magazine, page 7262 more examples
[N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.
1660, [Richard Allestree], “Sect[ion] V. Of the Second Advantage, Wealth.”, in The Gentlemans Calling, London: […] T[imothy] Garthwait […], →OCLC, page 83An NGTF statement will mean little to the world outside — which believes we are all leftists anyway — but it would have a real effect on those lesbians and gays, particularly those — and they are not inconsiderable — who support Reagan.
1984 August 11, Dennis Altman, “But What Does It Mean?”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 3Synonyms: negligible, trivial, unconsiderable, base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds
- Impossible to consider as a possibility; inconceivable.
It is not inconsiderable to me that all the above can simultaneously exist.
1996 December 7, ladyv, “The GPM and Alan Walters (fwd)”, in alt.clearing.technology (Usenet)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveToo unimportant to be worthy of attention.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivetoo small or unimportant to merit attention
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchinconsidérable
- Englishinconsiderable
From Middle French inconsidérable. By surface analysis, in- + considerable.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian незначителен, маловажен
- незначителен (neznačitelen)too unimportant to be worthy of attention
- маловажен (malovažen)too unimportant to be worthy of attention
Russian несуще́ственный, незначи́тельный
- несуще́ственный (nesuščéstvennyj)too unimportant to be worthy of attention
- незначи́тельный (neznačítelʹnyj)too unimportant to be worthy of attention
- нева́жный (nevážnyj)too unimportant to be worthy of attention
- малозна́чимый (maloznáčimyj)too unimportant to be worthy of attention
- малова́жный (malovážnyj)too unimportant to be worthy of attention
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inconsiderable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inconsiderable
“inconsiderable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inconsiderable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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