negligible
/ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
Example Sentences
- "We found errors, but their effects were negligible."
- "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."
- "Only unrealistic dreamers can suggest that Louis XVI might have accepted defeat and immediately turned himself into a constitutional monarch, even if he had been a less negligible and stupid man than he was, married to a less chicken-brained and irresponsible woman, and prepared to listen to less disastrous advisers."
Etymology
From negligence/negligent + -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“to neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *leǵ-, neglegō
- Suffix: negligence/negligent