Meanings
comparative more negligible · superlative most negligible · alternative archaic negligeable
- 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.
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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 SportOnly 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 61Synonyms: ignorable, neglectable, slight, trivial
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAble to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinneglegō“to neglect”
- New Latin*negligibilis
- Englishnegligible
From negligence/negligent + -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“to neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
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Full word history & related roots →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
negligible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negligible
“negligible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negligible. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “negligible,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negligible.
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