(a.) Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) Significant differences were found for the clinical scores for legs with and without previous DVT, which shows that the method is of value despite a not inconsiderable interobserver variation.
(3) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
(4) Augmentin is slightly more active than amoxicillin on some Acinetobacter strains but the difference is too inconsiderable to be of clinical significance.
(5) We conclude that small differences in long-term blood glucose control are of inconsiderable importance for the islet hormonal response to arginine found in IDDM without B-cell function.
(6) It is established that during hibernation a level of labelled aminoacids incorporation into proteins of all organs under study (ventricle, auricle, liver, spleen, diencephalon, adrenal gland, brown fatty tissue) is inconsiderable.
(7) Watch for when he is late, or disrespectful, or inconsiderate.
(8) It’s not an inconsiderable contribution in terms of cost to government, given we are taking in people in the first generation who are going to have big difficulties, and maybe second generation as well.” If there is a difficulty with the Scanlon report Australia Today, it is the sheer volume of information which portrays the complexity of Australia’s culture.
(9) Preincubation of nervous tissue with pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (40 microM) results in significant acceleration of catabolism of [1-14C] alpha-ketoglutarate, [5-14C] alpha-ketoglutarate and [4-14C] aspartate with an inconsiderable increase of catabolism of the rest of labelled substrates.
(10) A few months after I'd bought the land, for the not inconsiderable sum of £6,000, I decided to visit it.
(11) Special attention is given to twins with congenital cheiloschisis, gnathoschisis, and palatoschisis, and it is possible to show that the role played by hereditary factors in the etiology of such maldevelopments is not inconsiderable.
(12) They point above all to the risks of inconsiderate management and indicate the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities which are available only in a special clinic.
(13) In contrast, the traditional Christian-dominated Bible stories approach did at least have the not inconsiderable benefit of introducing children to the foundational texts of the western canon.
(14) The chemical composition of the tissue has been shown to be changed by these enzymes inconsiderably.
(15) In an era of belt-tightening at the BBC , his salary will be a not-inconsiderable £450,000.
(16) In the fortnight since his nomination, Wolfowitz has worked strenuously to try to temper his reputation as a raging neo-conservative, deploying his not inconsiderable charm to persuade critics in Europe and the Middle East that he does indeed have experience in finance and development, and that he will be able to divorce Washington's interests from the bank's.
(17) Parenteral administration may take the form of: 20-100 mg oestradiol "pills" implanted subcutaneously, percutaneous administration of 0.05-0.1 mg oestradiol-containing capsules stuck to the skin every 24 hours, 3 mg daily or every second day in a water-alcohol gel, vaginally in cream, suppositories of impregnated vaginal synthetic material (Silastic) rings in daily doses of 0.5-0.25 mg. Percutaneous administration in gel from and partially with vaginal administration in cream or suppositories result in not inconsiderable diurnal variation and inter-individual variation in the plasma oestradiol concentrations obtained.
(18) While these obstacles are not inconsiderable, the possibility for effective consultation still exists.
(19) Internally, however, they are frightened, timid, self-doubting, gullible, inconsiderate, vulnerable to erotomania, and cognitively unable to grasp the totality of actual events.
(20) Internistic diseases account for 12.8%, and disorders from the fields of paediatrics, ENT medicine and dermatology (3.5% urticaria) also make a non-inconsiderable contribution.
Unimportant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
(2) For example, we hypothesize that competition can be unimportant even if it is very intense: no such hypothesis is possible unless importance is distinguished from intensity.
(3) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
(4) Nucleotide pyrophosphatases seem to play an unimportant role in guanylyl imidodiphosphate conversion, while alkaline phosphatase is possibly of more importance.
(5) Moreover, M1-muscarinic receptors appear to be relatively unimportant in mediating the effects of carbachol on short circuit current (ISC).
(6) Cl measured with each method exceeded Crs (p less than .05), but the magnitude was clinically unimportant.
(7) According to these results the acetylator phenotype seems to be an unimportant factor in therapy with dihydralazine.
(8) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(9) Analysis of this time delay as a function of the factor Xa concentration indicates that the gain of the feedback loop of factor V activation by thrombin is so high that the contribution of factor V activation by factor Xa is relatively unimportant for factor Xa concentrations in the nanomolar range.
(10) This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described.
(11) But he is warm and sharp, and the punchlines begin to feel unimportant when the journey there is so much fun.
(12) Since this phenomenon is associated with high concentrations of contrast media in nonflowing blood, the high shear rate in arteries and arterioles make it unimportant in the in vivo situation.
(13) Didn't they realise how unimportant it all was, compared with what we'd been through?"
(14) The contribution made by cytotoxicity to the overall antiviral effect (measured by 24 h yield) was negligible in Flow 2002 cells, and was relatively unimportant in BHK cells.
(15) Safety was very satisfactory: patients complained only rarely of trivial and clinically unimportant side effects; no variations in laboratory tests were noted.
(16) Our results suggest that the osmotic and free-radical scavenging properties of hexoses are relatively unimportant in relation to their antiarrhythmic effects.
(17) Items loading on the first three factors were thought to be generally important, and those on the last three relatively unimportant.
(18) The basis of the program is a valid 'partial' statistical description of the EEG; that description is then used to produce a digital representation of a signal which, if plotted sequentially, might or might not by chance resemble an EEG, that is unimportant.
(19) The involvement of General Practitioners in the care of epilepsy was found to be small, but not unimportant.
(20) Pocket elimination by the use of surgical procedures (gingivectomy, flap operation with bone surgery) may be preferred in regions of the mouth where the aesthetic result is unimportant and where the removal of alveolar bone does not jeopardize the periodontal support of neighbouring teeth.