instant.
     paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief,
main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of vital &c. importance.
     in the front rank, first-rate; superior &c. 33; considerable &c.
(great) 31; marked &c. v.; rare &c. 137.
     significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti[Lat]. 
     Adv. materially &c. adj.; in the main; above all, gr/kat’
exochin/gr, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all. 
     Phr. expende Hannibalem![Lat] [Juvenal].

     #643.  Unimportance. —­ N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness,
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[obs3], 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[obs3], fiddlestick end[obs3]; pack of nonsense, mere farce.
     straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing,
brass farthing, doit[obs3], peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen[obs3], red cent [U.S.].

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     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;