Meanings
comparative more unimportant · superlative most unimportant
- petty; not important or noteworthy
It’s to the credit of this remarkable writer that those absences seem unimportant beside what is so rousingly present.
2009 July 12, David Orr, “Too Close to Touch”, in New York TimesSynonyms: base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle · Antonyms: important
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivepetty; not important or noteworthy
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot important
adjectivedevoid of importance, meaning, or force
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishimportant
- Englishunimportant
Translations
Bulgarian маловажен
- маловажен (malovažen)not important or noteworthy
Catalan irrelevant, intranscendent
- irrelevantnot important or noteworthy
- intranscendentnot important or noteworthy
Chinese Mandarin 不重要
- 不重要 (bù zhòngyào)not important or noteworthy
Czech nedůležitý
- nedůležitýnot important or noteworthy
Danish uvigtig
- uvigtignot important or noteworthy
Dutch onbelangrijk
- onbelangrijknot important or noteworthy
Esperanto malgrava
- malgravanot important or noteworthy
Finnish vähämerkityksellinen, vähäinen
- vähämerkityksellinennot important or noteworthy
- vähäinennot important or noteworthy
French sans importance
- sans importancenot important or noteworthy
German unwichtig
- unwichtignot important or noteworthy
Greek ασήμαντος
- ασήμαντος (asímantos)not important or noteworthy
Hungarian lényegtelen, nem fontos
- lényegtelennot important or noteworthy
- nem fontosnot important or noteworthy
Japanese 重要でない
- 重要でない (jūyō denai)not important or noteworthy
Māori korokororiki, kūrapa
- korokororikinot important or noteworthy
- kūrapanot important or noteworthy
- itinot important or noteworthy
Norwegian Bokmål uviktig
- uviktignot important or noteworthy
Polish nieważny, bez znaczenia
- nieważnynot important or noteworthy
- bez znaczenianot important or noteworthy
Portuguese desimportante
- desimportantenot important or noteworthy
Romanian neimportant
- neimportantnot important or noteworthy
Russian нева́жный
- нева́жный (nevážnyj)not important or noteworthy
Spanish sin importancia, poco importante
- sin importancianot important or noteworthy
- poco importantenot important or noteworthy
Swedish oviktig
- oviktignot important or noteworthy
Turkish önemsiz
- önemsiznot important or noteworthy
Ukrainian неважли́вий
- неважли́вий (nevažlývyj)not important or noteworthy
Cite this entry
unimportant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unimportant
“unimportant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unimportant. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unimportant,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unimportant.
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