negligible

• negligeable (archaic)

From negligence/negligent +‎ -ible,^[1] as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“I neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/

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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.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 61:

     Only unrealistic dreamers can suggest that Louis XVI might have accepted defeat and immediately turned himself into a constitutional monarch, even if he had been a less negligible and stupid man than he was, married to a less chicken-brained and irresponsible woman, and prepared to listen to less disastrous advisers.

• ignorable
• neglectable
• slight
• trivial
• See also Thesaurus:tiny

• considerable
• important
• significant
• innegligible
• unignorable

• neglect
• negligence
• negligent