Word of the Day: NEGLIGIBLE

Trivial or trifling

negligible (adj) - so small and unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant [neg-li-juh-buhl]

BREAKDOWN: NEG- (not) + LIG- (gather) + -IBLE (able to be)

• negligibility is insignificance or unimportance

See also: diligence, eclectic, predilection

“Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.” —Lucretius