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negligible

/ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/

negligible adjective: able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

Adjective

negligible (comparative more negligible, superlative most negligible)

  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.
    • 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

negligible meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

negligible in Hindi

able to be ignored or excluded
तुच्छ tucch

negligible in Tamil

புறக்கணிக்கத்தக்க, பொருட்படுத்தத்தகாத, அற்பமான, விட்டு விடத்தக்க

negligible in Marathi

नगण्य

negligible in Urdu

برائے نام, خفیف, قابل نظر اندازی
More languagesFewer languages
negligible in Bengali
নগণ্য nogonno
negligible in Malayalam
നിസ്സാരമായ, അവഗണിക്കാവുന്ന
negligible in Kannada
ನಿರ್ಲಕ್ಷಿಸಬಹುದಾದ, ಗಣನೆಗೆ ಬಾರದ, ನಗಣ್ಯ, ಲೆಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾರದ
negligible in Odia
ଅଳ୍ପ aḷpa
negligible in Sanskrit
नगण्य nagaṇya
negligible in Thai
เล็กน้อย lék-nɔ́ɔi, ไม่สำคัญ mâi-sǎm-kan, ขี้ปะติ๋ว kîi-bpà-dtǐu

Examples of negligible in a sentence

  • Very high purity fused silica glasses are made, which have negligible thermal expansion.
  • Stoneflies have negligible consumptive (thin solid line) and behavioral effects (thin dashed line) on mayfly abundance.
  • The cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria contains magnesium ribonucleate and negligible amount of lipids.

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Synonyms of negligible

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All synonyms and antonyms of negligible

Forms of negligible

comparativemore negligible
superlativemost negligible
alternative form (archaic)negligeable

Origin of negligible

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

Words formed from negligible

Phrases with negligible

Questions about negligible

What does negligible mean?
Negligible means able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
What is negligible in Hindi?
Negligible in Hindi is तुच्छ (tucch). See Negligible meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is negligible?
Negligible is an adjective.
How do you pronounce negligible?
Negligible is pronounced /ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/.

Words near negligible in the dictionary

  1. negligent
  2. negligent entrustment
  3. negligently
  4. negligibilities
  5. negligibility
  6. negligible
  7. negligible set
  8. negligible sets
  9. negligibleness
  10. negligibly
  11. negligée

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: negligible (page history and authors); negligible (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); negligible (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); negligible (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); negligible (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); negligible (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଅଳ୍ପ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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