ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

643. Unimportance -- N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality.
triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness &c adj.; poverty; smallness &c 32; vanity &c
(uselessness) 645; matter of indifference &c 866; no object.
nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to
boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter &c adj.; mere
joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no
great shakes, peu de chose [Fr.]; child's play, kinderspiel.
toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle,
Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air; yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras † , frippery; leather or prunello; chaff, drug, froth
bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse &c (inutility) 645; scum &c (dirt) 653.
joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge &c (unmeaning) 517; fiddlestick † , fiddlestick
end † ; pack of nonsense, mere farce.
straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit † ,
peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen † , red cent
[U.S.].
minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.
nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus [Lat.]; flash in the pan &c (impotence) 158; much
ado about nothing &c (overestimation) 482.
V. be unimportant &c adj.; not matter &c 642; go for nothing, matter nothing, signify
nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not matter a straw &c n.. make light of &c
(underestimate) 483; catch at straws &c (overestimate) 482.
Adj. unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance,
of no importance &c 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent.
subordinate &c (inferior) 34; mediocre &c (average) 29; passable, fair, respectable,
tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary &c (habitual) 613;
inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.
trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile &c (foolish) 499; airy,
shallow; weak &c 160; powerless &c 158; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling;
fribble † , inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin † ; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle † , nambypamby,
wishy-washy, milk and water.
poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible &c (contempt) 930; sorry, mean, meager, shabby,
miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel † , weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid † , beggarly,
worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse
[U.S.].
not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not
worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw &c n.; beneath notice, unworthy of
notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of
consideration; de lana caprina [It]; vain &c (useless) 645.
Adv. slightly &c adj.; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably.
for aught one cares.
Int. no matter!, pish!, tush!, tut!, pshaw! † , pugh!, pooh, pooh-pooh!, fudge!, bosh!,
humbug!, fiddlestick † , fiddlestick end! † , fiddlededee!, never mind!, n'importe! [Fr.], what