INCONSIDERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsiderable mean? 

• INCONSIDERABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INCONSIDERABLE has 1 sense:

1. too small or unimportant to merit attention

  Familiarity information: INCONSIDERABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCONSIDERABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Too small or unimportant to merit attention

Context example:

had no inconsiderable influence

Antonym:

considerable (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree)

 Context examples 

I have, I flatter myself, made no inconsiderable progress in her affections; but my own are entirely fixed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yes, indeed, and received no inconsiderable pleasure from the sight.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me, to appear as inconsiderable in this nation, as one single Lilliputian would be among us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The immediate advantage to herself was by no means inconsiderable, for it supplied her with endless jokes against them both.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The agitation which she had herself experienced on first learning her brother's engagement made her expect to raise no inconsiderable emotion in Mr. and Mrs. Allen, by the communication of the wonderful event.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such;—but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever wanted was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Nature had given them no inconsiderable share of beauty, and every Sunday dressed them in their cleanest skins and best attire.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The landed property of Hartfield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of Highbury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Woodhouses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty, that the contempt he discovered towards Europe, and the rest of the world, did not seem answerable to those excellent qualities of mind that he was master of; that reason did not extend itself with the bulk of the body; on the contrary, we observed in our country, that the tallest persons were usually the least provided with it; that among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity, than many of the larger kinds; and that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be, I hoped I might live to do his majesty some signal service.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)