3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.
Syn. — Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small; inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible.
Insignificantly
(In`sig*nif"i*cant*ly), adv. without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger
insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
Insignificative
(In`sig*nif"i*ca*tive) a. [L. insignificativus. See In- not, and Significative.] Not expressing
meaning; not significant.
Insignment
(In*sign"ment) n. [See Insignia.] A token, mark, or explanation. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
Insimulate
(In*sim"u*late) v. t. [L. insimulatus, p. p. of insimulare to accuse.] To accuse. [Obs.]
Donne.
Insincere
(In`sin*cere") a. [L. insincerus. See In- not, and Sincere.]
1. Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; —
said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations.
2. Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. [Obs.]
To render sleep's soft blessings insincere.
Pope. Syn. — Dissembling; hollow; hypocritical; deceptive deceitful; false; disingenuous; untrustworthy.
Insincerely
(In`sin*cere"ly), adv. Without sincerity.
Insincerity
(In`sin*cer"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. insincérité.] The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of
being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as,
the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard.
What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and
insincerity.
Blair. Insinew
(In*sin"ew) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insinewed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Insinewing.] To strengthen, as
with sinews; to invigorate. [Obs.]
All members of our cause, . . .
That are insinewed to this action.
Shak.
