insignificant
Do you want curtains that are a focal feature of your room or ones that blend insignificantly into the background?
The turning, rather insignificantly signposted, is after about 1km on the left.
The divers look insignificantly tiny amid the vast expanse of ocean.

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 insignificantly

insignificantly
But a series of actions, each insignificantly different from its predecessor, can take us from one to the other.
On the first statement, opinions changed insignificantly, perhaps due to a ceiling effect (opinion in 1987 was already about as positive as it could be).
A dominant share of domestic savings stems from profit, while workers and campesinos contribute insignificantly.
One-third were in fair health, which means that their daily routines were affected by ailments but their independence was insignificantly circumscribed.
Once again, trauma arising in each of the six age categories was insignificantly associated with meaning.
Education has the expected positive and significant effect in the 1960s, and is similarly positive in the 1970s albeit insignificantly.
The percentage population rural variable is insignificantly related to shipments and deaths in the county-level analyses, but significantly related in the state analyses.
However, no special measures are needed if the risk is insignificantly higher, such as in people over age 65 years.
Both measures of deforestation were found to be insignificantly related to the income terms.
All three attitudes were related (albeit statistically insignificantly) to low self-esteem and depressive symptoms - which had increased in the sample since the previous observation.
Three of the ten children were regarded as being unaffected or only insignificantly affected in all fields.
But that means a (perhaps insignificantly small) change of topic.
The enzyme showed 57% inhibition by jird anti-somatic collagenase antibodies and reacted insignificantly with normal jird sera.
More over, future actual return on pension assets is positively correlated with portfolio composition, but insignificantly correlated to expected rate of return on pension assets.
It is essential that the indicated degrees of nonuniformity insignificantly vary within the laser pulse duration and from one experiment to another.
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