insignificante
insignificant
adjective een-see-nyee-fee-KAHN-teh Rare
Also means
trivial
Usage Note
Insignificante describes something lacking importance or unremarkable, applied to a person (una persona insignificante, a nobody) or a thing (un dettaglio insignificante, a trivial detail). The stress falls on -can-, the penultimate syllable, and the gn is pronounced like the ny in 'canyon'.
Examples
"È un dettaglio insignificante."
Natural Translation
It is an insignificant detail.
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