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Inappreciable

Inappreciable \In`ap*pre"ci*a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + appreciable: cf. F. inappr['e]ciable.] Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated.
--Hallam.

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inappreciable

a. insignificant, undetectable, not able to be noticed

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inappreciable

adj. too small to make a significant difference; "inappreciable fluctuations in temperature"

Usage examples of "inappreciable".

It is certain that he can largely influence the character of a breed by selecting, in each successive generation, individual differences so slight as to be quite inappreciable by an uneducated eye.

Their vain fears only substitute other and worse evils for those which they are idly apprehensive of: while every restraint on the freedom of conduct of any of their human fellow-creatures (otherwise than by making them responsible for any evil actually caused by it), dries up pro tanto the principal fountain of human happiness, and leaves the species less rich, to an inappreciable degree, in all that makes life valuable to the individual human being.