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Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.

Insignificant; contemptible. [Obs.]

parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. A little chit of a woman. Thackeray.

A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.

A small copper coin of insignificant value. My dukedom to a beggarly denier. Shak.

Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing. Such water flies, diminutives of nature. Shak.

A little or insignificant duke. Ford.

To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and…

A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you. Steal! foh, a fico for the phrase. Shak.

A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.

Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population. Fractional crystallization (Chem.), a process of gradual and approximate purification and separation, by means of repeated solution and crystallization therefrom. -- Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation…

Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.

Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. [R.] A. Seward.

The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.

A little king; a weak or insignificant king. Carlyle.

Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible. When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes I Sam. xv. 17.

A little or insignificant lord. Goldsmith.

Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.