negligible

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/ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/

adjective

Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

“We found errors, but their effects were negligible.”

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivenegligible (comparative more negligible, superlative most negligible)

comparative more negligible · superlative most negligible · alternative archaic negligeable

  1. Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

    We found errors, but their effects were negligible.

    2 more examples

    Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.

    2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport

    Only unrealistic dreamers can suggest that Louis XVI might have accepted defeat and immediately turned himself into a constitutional monarch, even if he had been a less negligible and stupid man than he was, married to a less chicken-brained and irresponsible woman, and prepared to listen to less disastrous advisers.

    1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 61

    Synonyms: ignorable, neglectable, slight, trivial

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveAble to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveso small as to be meaningless; insignificant

adjectivenot worth considering

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinneglegō“to neglect”
  2. New Latin*negligibilis
  3. Englishnegligible

From negligence/negligent + -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“to neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

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Translations

Bengali নগণ্য
  • নগণ্য (nogonno)able to be ignored or excluded
Catalan negligible
  • negligibleable to be ignored or excluded
Chinese Mandarin 可忽视的, 微不足道
  • 可忽视的 (kě hūshì de)able to be ignored or excluded
  • 微不足道 (wēibùzúdào)able to be ignored or excluded
Czech zanedbatelný
  • zanedbatelnýable to be ignored or excluded
Danish ubetydelig
  • ubetydeligable to be ignored or excluded
Dutch verwaarloosbaar
  • verwaarloosbaarable to be ignored or excluded
Esperanto neglektinda
  • neglektindaable to be ignored or excluded
Finnish merkityksetön, vähäpätöinen
  • merkityksetönable to be ignored or excluded
  • vähäpätöinenable to be ignored or excluded
  • mitätönable to be ignored or excluded
  • yhdentekeväable to be ignored or excluded
French négligeable, insignifiant
  • négligeableable to be ignored or excluded
  • insignifiantable to be ignored or excluded
German vernachlässigbar
  • vernachlässigbarable to be ignored or excluded
Greek αμελητέος
  • αμελητέος (amelitéos)able to be ignored or excluded
Hindi तुच्छ
  • तुच्छ (tucch)able to be ignored or excluded
Hungarian elhanyagolható
  • elhanyagolhatóable to be ignored or excluded
Italian insignificante, trascurabile
  • insignificanteable to be ignored or excluded
  • trascurabileable to be ignored or excluded
Japanese 些細, つまらない
  • 些細 (sasai)able to be ignored or excluded
  • つまらない (tsumaranai)able to be ignored or excluded
  • 取るに足らない (toru ni taranai)able to be ignored or excluded
Polish nieistotny
  • nieistotnyable to be ignored or excluded
Portuguese insignificante, negligenciável
  • insignificanteable to be ignored or excluded
  • negligenciávelable to be ignored or excluded
  • desprezávelable to be ignored or excluded
Romanian neglijabil, neînsemnat
  • neglijabilable to be ignored or excluded
  • neînsemnatable to be ignored or excluded
  • insignifiantable to be ignored or excluded
Russian пренебрежи́мый
  • пренебрежи́мый (prenebrežímyj)able to be ignored or excluded
Spanish insignificante, desdeñable
  • insignificanteable to be ignored or excluded
  • desdeñableable to be ignored or excluded
  • negligibleable to be ignored or excluded
  • despreciableable to be ignored or excluded
Swedish försumbar
  • försumbarable to be ignored or excluded
Thai เล็กน้อย, ไม่สำคัญ
  • เล็กน้อย (lék-nɔ́ɔi)able to be ignored or excluded
  • ไม่สำคัญ (mâi-sǎm-kan)able to be ignored or excluded
  • ขี้ปะติ๋ว (kîi-bpà-dtǐu)able to be ignored or excluded
Cite this entry
APA

negligible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negligible

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“negligible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negligible. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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