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Antonyms for negligible


Grammar : Adj
Spell : neg-li-juh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɛg lɪ dʒə bəl



Definition of negligible

Origin :
  • "capable of being neglected," 1819, from negligence + -ible. Related: Negligibly; negligibility.
  • adj insignificant
Example sentences :
  • Thus manifestly a negligible factor, it is also one tending to extinction.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • Duncan's hand airily wafted the remark into the limbo of the negligible.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • It is a real drawback to us Liberals that they are so weak, so negligible.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • The risk of detection, so that they made little noise, was negligible.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • One man was killed, but otherwise the damage was negligible.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various
  • They become important or negligible, according to the point of view.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • People try to treat it as a negligible quantity when they disagree with it.
  • Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
  • I am certain that the dizziness will be negligible on the second trial.
  • Extract from : « The Point of View » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
  • But even there her beauty was by no means a negligible quantity.
  • Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sitting there, while Nettie dismissed him as negligible, he saw her clearly, grimly.
  • Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber

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