unimportant

adjective

un·​im·​por·​tant ˌən-im-ˈpȯr-tᵊnt How to pronounce unimportant (audio)
 especially Southern US and New England  -tənt,
-dənt
: lacking in importance : not important : minor, trivial
unimportant details
a relatively unimportant problem
unimportantly adverb

Examples of unimportant in a Sentence

we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct
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Farming out certain creative development processes to AI felt not only ethically wrong but also like key cognitive stages were being lost, skipped over, considered unimportant. New Atlas, 25 May 2025 While these might seem unimportant, take it from someone who travels regularly — packing cubes are a game-changer. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025 But your boss doesn’t want to really hear them or doesn’t want to act on them, or both, for reasons that are unclear and, in the end, unimportant. Anna Holmes, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 The Liver King considered his steroid use unimportant Johnson built his social media empire by filming increasingly outrageous videos about his lifestyle and diet. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unimportant

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unimportant was in 1750

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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimportant. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.

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