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From negligence/negligent + -ible,[1] as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“I neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
negligible (comparative more negligible, superlative most negligible)
- Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
We found errors, but their effects were negligible.
2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
- ignorable
- neglectable
- slight
- trivial
- See also Thesaurus:tiny
able to be ignored or excluded
- Bengali: নগণ্য (bn) (nogonno)
- Catalan: negligible (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: zanedbatelný (cs)
- Danish: ubetydelig
- Dutch: verwaarloosbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: neglektinda
- Finnish: merkityksetön (fi), vähäpätöinen (fi), mitätön (fi), yhdentekevä (fi)
- French: négligeable (fr), insignifiant (fr)
- German: vernachlässigbar (de)
- Greek: αμελητέος (el) (amelitéos)
- Hindi: तुच्छ (hi) (tucch)
- Hungarian: elhanyagolható (hu)
- Italian: insignificante (it), trascurabile (it)
- Japanese: 些細 (ja) (sasai), つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 取るに足らない (ja) (toru ni taranai)
- Polish: nieistotny (pl) m
- Portuguese: insignificante (pt), negligenciável, desprezável (pt)
- Romanian: neglijabil (ro), neînsemnat (ro),, insignifiant (ro)
- Russian: пренебрежи́мый (ru) (prenebrežímyj)
- Sanskrit: नगण्य (nagaṇya)
- Serbo-Croatian: занемарљив
- Spanish: insignificante (es), desdeñable (es)
- Swedish: försumbar (sv)
- Thai: เล็กน้อย (th) (lék-nɔ́ɔi), ไม่สำคัญ (mâi-sǎm-kan), ขี้ปะติ๋ว (kîi-bpà-dtǐu)
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “negligible”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.