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His hopes for a career in acting proved insubstantial; no one would cast him, even in an insignificant role.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSIGNIFICANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insignificant
 a.  not large enough to consider or notice; lacking in importance; trivial
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  In silence, only rarely exchanging a few insignificant words, our friends travelled as far as Fedot's.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  The four hours were spent in insignificant discussion of one thing and another; Anna Sergyevna both listened and spoke without a smile.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  By the way, do you know I used not quite to understand your close friendship with Arkady Nikolaitch; I thought him rather insignificant.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  By then he had taken to cutting me in the street, and I suspected that he was afraid of compromising himself by greeting a personage as insignificant as me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
5  After the anecdote the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and where.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
6  These sayings were prepared in the inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to drawing room.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
7  Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy and handsome young man and woman for one another.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
8  Each time that these hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at the count and at Anna Mikhaylovna, the latter very adroitly turned the conversation to insignificant matters.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
9  Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
10  , whom he knew in society mostly as weak and insignificant men.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
11  Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER X
12  Many various, indifferent, and insignificant people appeared before him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XVI
13  They were for the most part quite insignificant trifles, but did not seem so to the mother or to the father either, now that he read this diary about his children for the first time.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XV
14  It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
15  Her sense of irony never quite deserted her, and she could still note, with self-directed derision, the abnormal value suddenly acquired by the most tiresome and insignificant details of her former life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and can't make a change.
2  The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.
3  He made her feel insignificant and stupid.
4  His hopes for a career in acting proved insubstantial; no one would cast him, even in an insignificant role.
5  At the bottom of the organizational chart is something that is referred to as an insignificant green dot.