insignificant
He started to have a creeping sense of his own insignificance.
The insignificance of last night's match was signalled by the absence of so many star names from the team.
Toward the latter half of the century, the smaller states gradually dwindled down to utter insignificance.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Of little or less importance
be in/under someone's shadowidiom
be neither here nor thereidiom
big deal
biggie
derisory
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
mere
merely
picture
piddling
piddly
piffling
play second fiddleidiom
unserious
unseriousness
venial
vestigial
vestigially

Examples of insignificance

insignificance
Once developed, the alien idea proved a potent motif for fictional explorations of the singularity or insignificance of humanity cultivated by the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Their fate emphasizes not only the insignificance of human resistance to the struggle, but also the latent power of unsolicited natural selection.
Moreover, as among men, this activity largely receded into insignificance with the progression of age (3.2 % for the age group 40 and more).
Tests indicated insignificance for squared and cubed forms of independent variables, and a better fit for the linear versus a log or other non-linear models.
As the opportunity value of continued existence shrinks, the corresponding duty fades to insignificance and eventually disappears altogether.
By contrast, silk-gauze-weaving receded into insignificance with progressing age (2.1 % among those aged 40 and more).
A reviewer has suggested that the overall insignificance of these regressors could be due to data quality.
Ties between devotees, where they exist, pale into insignificance in comparison.
The insignificance of the results in this group and the small sample size suggest that little weight should be given to the reversal.
The relatively equal distribution of characteristics and the insignificance of the sources are the two main aspects of space-ambiophony.
And surely it is in everyone's interests not to see what is valued in creative exceptionality flattened out into mere variation and insignificance?
Rather, this story exemplifies the moral insignificance of luxuries.
History has sufficiently demonstrated that harmful exogenous influences may pale into insignificance against the destructive talents of endogenous actors.
To be the echo of every passion was to wipe the slate clean and to attain to a moral absolute: total insignificance.
The statistical insignificance means that the model cannot estimate the coefficient on birth weight precisely.
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