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  • 51negligibility — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Contemptible unimportance: inconsiderableness, negligibleness, paltriness, pettiness, smallness, triviality, trivialness. See IMPORTANT …

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  • 52negligibleness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Contemptible unimportance: inconsiderableness, negligibility, paltriness, pettiness, smallness, triviality, trivialness. See IMPORTANT …

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  • 53pettiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Contemptible unimportance: inconsiderableness, negligibility, negligibleness, paltriness, smallness, triviality, trivialness. See IMPORTANT …

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  • 54trivialness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Contemptible unimportance: inconsiderableness, negligibility, negligibleness, paltriness, pettiness, smallness, triviality. See IMPORTANT …

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  • 55paltry — adjective (paltrier, paltriest) 1》 (of an amount) very small or meagre. 2》 petty; trivial. Derivatives paltriness noun Origin C16: appar. based on dialect pelt rubbish ; cf. Low Ger. paltrig ragged …

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  • 56insignificance — n. Unimportance, paltriness, triviality, emptiness, nothingness …

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  • 57unimportance — n. Insignificance, paltriness, emptiness, triviality, nothingness …

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  • 58inadequacy — noun 1) the inadequacy of available resources Syn: insufficiency, deficiency, deficit, scarcity, sparseness, dearth, paucity, shortage, want, lack, undersupply; paltriness, meagerness Ant: abundance …

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  • 59contemptible — adj Contemptible, despicable, pitiable, sorry, scurvy, cheap, beggarly, shabby are comparable when they mean arousing or deserving scorn or disdain. Contemptible applies to whatever inspires such scorn or disdain for any reason however great or… …

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  • 60importance — importance, consequence, moment, weight, significance, import are comparable when they denote the quality or the character or the state of someone or something that impresses others as of great or sometimes eminent worth, value, or influence.… …

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