insignificant的意思|insignificant的解释-里氏词典

insignificant [,insig'nifikәnt]

a. 无关紧要的, 无意义的, 琐碎的

insignificant

[ adj ]

devoid of importance, meaning, or force

<adj.all>

not worthy of notice

<adj.all>

signifying nothing

<adj.all>

insignificant sounds

of little importance or influence or power; of minor status

<adj.all>

a minor, insignificant bureaucrat

peanut politicians

Insignificant \In`sig*nif"i*cant\, a.
1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import;
meaningless; as, insignificant words.

2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose;
unimportant; valueless; futile.

Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of
rewards and punishments. --Bp. Wilkins.

3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean;
contemptible; as, an insignificant person.

Syn: Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small;
inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.

meaningless \meaningless\ adj.
having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a
meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of
{meaningful}. [Narrower terms: {insignificant ; {mindless,
unmeaning ; {nonsense(prenominal), nonsensical ; {pointless,
purposeless ] Also See: {insignificant}, {unimportant},
{purposeless}, {unimportant}.
[WordNet 1.5]

He acknowledges that Mr. Rifkin, insignificant as he might at first seem to a vast, technology-based economy, has been able to set the agenda for biotechnology.
But whenever they rinsed with coffee or the cola, there was only an insignificant rise in blood nicotine levels.
"There's so much gold above ground just sitting everywhere that the next 1,000 tons or 2,000 tons that are going to be produced are absolutely insignificant," says Mr. Parker.
Webber said the proposed $20,000 grant is financially insignificant compared to its symbolic importance.
Economic Planning Secretary Solita Monsod told reporters that the proposed loan figure was too insignificant to even negotiate at all.
Government analysts said the change was statistically insignificant but they said overall the report suggests the economy is weakening.
Greencore, the state sugar company, was floated last year. Virtually insignificant ten years ago, food companies now account for more than 10 per cent of the Dublin Stock Exchange's market capitalisation.
"I belong to the insignificant minority who thinks it won't," he says.
But, with the poll's margin of error of 5 percentage points, the change is statistically insignificant.
But Nagel called the damage insignificant and said Atlantis was in excellent shape.
Mr. Muegler said the company argued at trial that the injury rate to children was "statistically insignificant" compared to overall sales.
There will presumably be competition to buy at least the Leyland truck plant, which has a not insignificant total of 2,200 employees.
There might be a brief time in the shadows but death is guaranteed to restore the reputation of the most insignificant musician, and nostalgia the revitalistion of any fad.
But what changed them was Thatcher and the Conservative party; Hammond's role was insignificant by comparison and he may even have slowed the process because of his antagonistic stances.
Still, Mr. Munsell insists that the change is fairly insignificant.
It sounds almost Marxian, but, unlike Marx, Tolstoy does not believe that the inexorable march of events renders individual experience insignificant.
The Red Cross said that, based on a screening of the nation's blood supply, blood transfusions in the U.S. carry a small but "not insignificant" chance of transmitting the virus.
Environmentalists argue that regardless of the amount of oil extracted, it would be insignificant compared with the nation's total oil consumption and that it isn't worth the potential damage to the pristine wilderness.
"We know from looking at all this that if there was any help, and I deny that there was, it was insignificant, so anything like this where someone is reporting that significant help was given just doesn't make sense in terms of the record," he said.
It is just as well the group has insignificant gearing and that the increased dividend was comfortably covered. The logic of separating from Solvay was accepted when the break-up of their Interox joint venture was announced last year.
At the same time income from the ports is holding up well. The problems with Southampton Container Terminals are over, and from now on any severance costs should be insignificant.
The bill that's inspired the protests would double the currently insignificant fees to enter universities, limit access to certain of them, add special qualifying examinations between college years, and force students to specialize sooner.
But both groups say their numbers are generally quite close, with most discrepancies being statistically insignificant.
No accomplishment, it seems, is too arcane or too insignificant to merit a memoir.
The cost was described as "insignificant," perhaps as little as a few hundred thousand dollars.
Although crude stocks declined by 531,000 barrels last week, market players dismissed the drop as insignificant.
While insignificant in military terms, the rocketing has been a major psychological weapon.
It has been widening the gap ever since. Today, operating without the benefit of state subsidy, British Rail's loss-making freight operations have been pruned to the point where they play an almost insignificant role in the transport of goods.
After these sales, the companies in which Minorco has interests will have no platinum-mining interests, and Minorco's attributable interest in Western world gold production will be an insignificant 1%.
'There's nothing like a machine to make a man feel insignificant,' says someone else.

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