Definition of Inconsiderable

1. Adjective. Too small or unimportant to merit attention. "Had no inconsiderable influence"

Antonyms: Considerable

Definition of Inconsiderable

1. a. Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum.

Definition of Inconsiderable

1. Adjective. too trivial or unimportant to be worthy of attention ¹

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Definition of Inconsiderable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsiderable

inconscious
inconsecutive
inconsecutiveness
inconsequence
inconsequences
inconsequencies
inconsequency
inconsequent
inconsequentia
inconsequential
inconsequentiality
inconsequentially
inconsequentialness
inconsequently
inconsequentness
inconsiderable
inconsiderably
inconsideracy
inconsiderate
inconsiderately
inconsiderateness
inconsideration
inconsistence
inconsistences
inconsistencies
inconsistency
inconsistent
inconsistently
inconsistentness
inconsisting

Literary usage of Inconsiderable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"... was intimately acquainted with the history of the Christians, declares, in the most express terms, that the number of martyrs was very inconsiderable.72 ..."

2. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"The guanaco is nearly the only warm-blooded quadruped, and it is found in quite inconsiderable numbers compared with the multitude of flies. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... number of Patagonian aborigines is inconsiderable, and Tierra del Fuego has about 4000 inhabitants. GOVERNMENT.—The form of government is republican. ..."

4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1898)
"Moreover, in the latter contingency the "inconsiderable village" in question, and the provincial governor, are equally mysterious. ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... in the midst of ten men who were guarding him; then he escaped, to their great shame, and yet they were no inconsiderable persons. ..."

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