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negligible

Meaning

Of a size, amount, or degree so small that it is not important or does not warrant attention.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

He’d checked the numbers a dozen times. The expected loss was almost zero, a practically negligible amount that barely registered. Still, he felt a knot in his stomach, a tiny worry he couldn't shake even though it was too small to matter.

The tiny tremor in the warp core was almost negligible. We’d seen worse on the bridge during a mild space sneeze. "Anything to worry about, Commander?" the junior engineer asked, his voice tight. "No," she replied, eyes still glued to the console, "the energy fluctuation is negligible."

The tiny crack in the ceramic orb was so small, so utterly insignificant, that its impact on the overall structure was negligible. We barely noticed it as we carefully packaged the artifact, its value too immense to be marred by such a minuscule imperfection.

My pet hamster, Sir Reginald Fluffernutter, shed a single whisker. The humans fretted, but the amount was so small, it was negligible. Honestly, it was less hair than you'd find on a particularly bald banana. We just swept it up and went back to our important business: staring at walls.

Barnaby the badger, after weeks of rigorous training, finally attempted his first juggling act with three slightly bruised potatoes. He tossed them with gusto! One potato arced too high, then tumbled into his neighbor's prize-winning petunias. The damage was, thankfully, negligible.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

The leak in the roof was tiny, just a few drops during the heaviest downpour. It seemed almost negligible, not worth the hassle of climbing up there with a ladder and some tar. We figured we'd get to it eventually.

The flickering neon sign of the roadside diner was the only illumination. He'd hoped for a breakthrough, something to change his fortunes, but the lottery ticket's prize was a laughable sum, a practically negligible amount. He tossed it onto the sticky counter, the dream dissolving like cheap sugar in lukewarm coffee.

After hours spent meticulously calibrating the bio-luminescent spore growth medium, the final yield of activated ergothione was only a *negligible* fraction of what the simulation predicted. It wasn't even enough to warrant a second measurement, just a tiny, disappointing flicker of progress.

My cat, Bartholomew, once discovered a single crumb of cheese under the sofa. He batted it around for a solid ten minutes, a furry tornado of delight, before deeming it utterly delicious. To Bartholomew, that crumb was a feast, but to me, the cleanup was negligible.

Barnaby adjusted his monocle, squinting at the minuscule crumb on his royal velvet chaise. "The royal baker's negligence in dusting this cushion is, frankly, negligible," he declared, then promptly sneezed from the sheer overwhelmingness of the tiny, insignificant speck.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

The alarm blared, but after a restless night, his ability to hear it seemed utterly negligible. He just rolled over, burying his head deeper into the pillow. The world outside could wait; his exhaustion was too profound to notice anything else.

The tiny crack in the hull was almost imperceptible. After the meteor shower, the crew expected extensive damage, but the breach was so small, its impact on their trajectory was utterly negligible. They could have ignored it, but protocol demanded they seal even the slightest imperfection.

The artisan carefully inspected the handcrafted celestial sextant. One tiny scratch marred the polished brass, its impact utterly negligible against the vast, star-dusted perfection of the instrument's purpose. He sighed with relief; the flaw was so minor, it wouldn't affect its astronomical readings.

My cat's contribution to the household chores was negligible. While I wrestled with overflowing laundry and a besieged dishwasher, he masterfully supervised my efforts from a sunbeam, offering only the occasional purr of critique. His strategic naps, however, were remarkably impactful on my stress levels.

Bartholomew's mustache-waxing schedule was meticulously planned, but he'd overlooked a single rogue hair. Its rebellion was so minuscule, so utterly negligible, that even his prized badger-hair comb barely registered its insolence, leaving Bartholomew to ponder if his entire grooming ritual was, in fact, a colossal waste of perfectly good pomade.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The chance of a meteor striking the inhabited sector was deemed statistically negligible, so the evacuation was called off. Despite the colonists' initial consternation, their fear subsided as the astronomers confirmed the insignificance of the celestial threat, a worry so minor it was barely worth considering.

The ambient static on the subspace comms was utterly negligible; a mere whisper against the cacophony of approaching nebulae. Captain Elara dismissed the anomaly, her focus on the imminent asteroid cluster requiring their full attention, not on trivial fluctuations.

The tremor that ran through the hull was so minuscule, its impact was utterly negligible. Elara barely registered the subtle vibration as she recalibrated the xenobotanical sample scrubber, a mere whisper against the overwhelming hum of the starship's life support.

The microscopic lint bunny, a veritable titan of fluff, dared to challenge Bartholomew the bulldog's slumber. Its minuscule contribution to the overall rug detritus was, however, utterly negligible. Bartholomew, a connoisseur of profound naps, merely grunted, his snores a timpani crescendo drowning out the fuzz's audacious defiance.

The rogue alchemist’s attempt to transmute lead into artisanal cheese resulted in a minuscule puff of iridescent gas, its lingering aroma utterly negligible to the discerning nostril. He’d hoped for a dairy-based revolution, but the olfactory impact was less than that of a forgotten sock behind the radiator.

Difficulty

Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.

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