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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
negligible
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
minimal/negligible (=very small and not important)
▪ The change in government had a minimal impact in the rural areas of the country.
negligible/minimalformal (= very small)
▪ The advertising campaign had a negligible effect on demand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Also, strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population.
▪ S., but the risk of being caught is almost negligible.
▪ Justice in Rio is normally so slow that the effect on law enforcement is almost negligible.
▪ The new decision also sets an almost negligible threshold of collaboration.
▪ Advantages of the ancient method of water transportation include a stable water-flow with little vaporisation and energy consumption that is almost negligible.
▪ It still depends on flow-patterns, even when the air is so thin as to be almost negligible.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ Also, strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population.
effect
▪ They claimed the private hospital development would have a negligible effect on residents.
▪ Other economists say raising the minimum wage would have negligible effects on employment.
▪ He says impact fees have a negligible effect and are the wrong way to go.
▪ In the rat cerebral cortex in the absence of calmodulin, calcium has a negligible effect at low concentrations.
impact
▪ Charity schools had a negligible impact in areas where child employment opportunities were widespread.
▪ Raising the minimum wage has a negligible impact on unemployment.
▪ Estimates of the effect of the few Concordes currently in operation are that they have a negligible impact on the ozone layer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Each piece of candy contains a negligible amount of fat.
▪ Economists say raising the minimum wage would have a negligible effect on employment rates.
▪ Expenses for maintaining the investment fund are negligible - just half a percentage point of profit.
▪ The chances of a healthy adult contracting the disease are negligible.
▪ The cost of maintaining the machine is negligible.
▪ The difference in cost would be negligible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to Scrooge McDuck theorists, such problems are negligible irritants.
▪ Also, strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population.
▪ And Carolan was not negligible as an expert on painting in his own right.
▪ Nitrogen generation is negligible for both coals over the maturity range investigated.
▪ Raising the minimum wage has a negligible impact on unemployment.
▪ The set of services that fits into this category, however, may well be negligible.
▪ This does not mean that the pace of innovation and of capital formation in the eighteenth-century economy were negligible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Negligible

Negligible \Neg"li*gi*ble\, a. [Cf. F. n['e]gligible, n['e]gligeable.] That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of notice.

Within very negligible limits of error.
--Sir J. Herschel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
negligible

"capable of being neglected," 1819, from negligence + -ible. Related: Negligibly; negligibility.

Wiktionary
negligible

a. Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

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WordNet
negligible

  1. adj. so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"

  2. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" [syn: paltry, trifling]

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Usage examples of "negligible".

The station lay just beyond, and from the station to Arling Avenue was a negligible step.

In order to make any solution at all possible you have assumed cosine squared theta negligible.

No, there is no moon and the star is so distant that it has negligible effect upon the water.

Brian for treatment just the day before and that he assessed his suicide potential at that time and it was negligible.

It then comes to Bladdery and Purfle at once, tuned to one another at the filed edge of this runcible spoon and the negligible effort it will take to fill their common world with death, that nobody said anything about a fight to the finish, right?

It was not, therefore, remarkable that he should be liable to misconstruction, more especially by those who had nothing in common with him, except that somewhat negligible factor, common humanity.

Each wing will have a negligible amount of carbs, no fiber, and 9 grams of protein.

House, although such income would be negligible in the face of your own riches.

They marched towards La Roche-Derrien, but the real aim of the campaign was not to capture the town, which was of negligible value, but rather to draw Sir Thomas Dagworth and his small army into a pitched battle in which the knights and men- at-arms, mounted on their big armoured horses, would be released to smash their way through the English ranks.

Now, on everyday scales photons act as negligible little probes that bounce off trees, paintings, and people with essentially no effect on the state of motion of these comparatively large material bodies.

In greenhouses this wasp can control the population of Whiteflies to the point where damage is negligible.

There was a negligible pause, during which Duchemin saw the long lashes of the Comtesse de Lorgnes curtain momentarily her disastrous violet eyes: it was a sign of assent.

Dismissing the observed proximate beings as a negligible distraction to be briskly dealt with, that which had sluggishly begun to stir moved on to more consequential activities.

IOO paint-bubbling halitosis, 100 per cent constipation, a negligible increase in weight, and mouth farts.

In other areas, though, that role of cereals was taken over or shared by roots and tubers, which were of negligible importance in the ancient Fertile Crescent and China.