negligible.

So small in amount or effect that it makes no appreciable difference in the context.

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Words that belong together

• negligible effect
• negligible difference

On the page

The delay was negligible beside the years they had already lost.

Her revision made a negligible difference to the rhythm of the passage.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more negligible; superlative most negligible where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.