negligible

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neg·li·gi·ble /ˈneɡlɪdʒəbəl/ adjectiveadj

LITTLE/NOT MUCHtoo slight or unimportant to have any effect 可以忽视的，无足轻重的，微不足道的 SYN insignificant

The damage done to his property was negligible.

对他财产造成的损失微不足道。

► see thesaurus at unimportant

Examples from the Corpus

negligible• The set of services that fits into this category, however, may well be negligible.• This does not mean that the pace of innovation and of capital formation in the eighteenth-century economy were negligible.• The chances of a healthy adult contracting the disease are negligible.• The cost of maintaining the machine is negligible.• The difference in cost would be negligible.• Each piece of candy contains a negligible amount of fat.• Also, strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population.• And Carolan was not negligible as an expert on painting in his own right.• Economists say raising the minimum wage would have a negligible effect on employment rates.• Nitrogen generation is negligible for both coals over the maturity range investigated.• Raising the minimum wage has a negligible impact on unemployment.• According to Scrooge McDuck theorists, such problems are negligible irritants.• Expenses for maintaining the investment fund are negligible - just half a percentage point of profit.

Origin negligible

(1800-1900) Early French négligible, from négliger; → NEGLIGEE

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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 8612 COCA: 12050

negligible

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be, seem無足輕重；看起來不重要

▸➤become變得微不足道

ADVERB

➤by no means, far from絕非微不足道；遠非無須重視

◇Delays in the courts are far from negligible.在法庭上的耽擱絕非無關緊要。

➤almost幾乎微不足道

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 8612 COCA: 12050

negligible adj.
⇨ slight

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 8612 COCA: 12050

negligible

Unimportant: unimportant, minor, irrelevant...