ignorable
Etymology Adjective
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Etymology Adjective
ignorable
- Able to be ignored.
- Users on this Internet chat system are ignorable by right-clicking the user name.
- Insignificant or trivial enough to be ignored.
- Synonyms: negligible, neglectable, trivial, insignificant
- Antonyms: unignorable, noticeable, important, radical, significant
- (statistics, of missing data) Unrelated to the parameters being estimated
- Antonyms: informative
- French: ignorable
- German: vernachlässigbar
- Italian: ignorabile
- Portuguese: ignorável
- Spanish: ignorable
ignorable (plural ignorables)
- Anything that can be ignored.
- 1969, Michael Huxley, The Geographical Magazine, volume 42, page 389:
- So long as people like Mr Spearing stop at this point and resort to adjectives instead of numbers, so long will engineers, and probably also decision makers, continue to treat intangibles as ignorables.
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