immateriality.
triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness &c adj.; poverty;
smallness &c 32; vanity &c (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference &c
866; no object.
nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing
particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no
great matter, trifling matter &c adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly
anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great
shakes, peu de chose [Fr.]; child's play, kinderspiel.
toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble,
trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles
light as air; yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras†, frippery; leather or
prunello; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse &c
(inutility) 645; scum &c (dirt) 653.
joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge &c (unmeaning) 517;
fiddlestick†, fiddlestick end†; pack of nonsense, mere farce.
straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny,
farthing, brass farthing, doit†, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff,
old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen†, red cent [U.S.].
minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance,
feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.
nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus [Lat.]; flash in the pan &c
(impotence) 158; much ado about nothing &c (overestimation) 482.
V. be unimportant &c adj.; not matter &c 642; go for nothing, matter
nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not
matter a straw &c n.. make light of &c (underestimate) 483; catch at
straws &c (overestimate) 482.
Adj. unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account,
of little importance, of no importance &c 642; immaterial; unessential,
nonessential; indifferent.
subordinate &c (inferior) 34; mediocre &c (average) 29; passable,
fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common;
ordinary &c (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant,
inappreciable.
trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle;
puerile &c (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak &c 160; powerless &c 158;
frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble†, inane,
ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin†; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle†,
namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.
poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible &c (contempt) 930; sorry,
mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel†,
weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid†, beggarly, worthless,
twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-
horse [U.S.].
not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not
worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a
straw &c n.; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard,
unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration;
de lana caprina [It]; vain &c (useless) 645.
Adv. slightly &c adj.; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably.
for aught one cares.
Int. no matter!, pish!, tush!, tut!, pshaw!†, pugh!, pooh, pooh-pooh!,
fudge!, bosh!, humbug!, fiddlestick†, fiddlestick end!†, fiddlededee!,
never mind!, n'importe! [Fr.], what signifies it, what boots it, what
of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for', stuff!,
nonsense!, stuff and nonsense,
Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas [Lat.]; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle
[Fr.]; it matters not, it does not signify; it is of no consequence, it
is of no importance; elephantus non capit murem [Lat.]; tempete dans un
verre d'eau [Fr.].