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I’m looking for a word (or a bunch) that means »not important»

Ex:

This employee is ‘not important’ for his employer.
The ‘not important’ employee. <— Title

I found:

The disregarded employee
The overlooked employee
The neglected employee

I really want to focus on a overall »not important».
The definition of discredited (which is a synonym), is: 1. Harm the good reputation of someone or something. 2. Cause to seem false or unreliable
So this is the kind of word I don’t really want. I want to stay in

the general idea of »not important»

and in a

neutral way

. By neutral way, I mean that the employee is ignored not because he’s not good or he did something bad, but because he means nothing to the employer like the employer means nothing to the employee (each of them have their life to live).

Can you help me?

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Something that is unimportant is useless. (But you are looking for something else, and unimportant is not the right descriptor.)

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A person can be careless about other people at work, perhaps because there so many others there that he has personal relationships with few of them. That doesn’t mean they are unimportant. It means they are unimportant to him.

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Useless is too negative
And irrelevant is irrelevant in what I’m looking for
I’m going to be picky on this one guys

Careless is also irrelevant for what I’m asking and I’m not going into a philosophical debate… not here

Other way to see it would be: Not taken into consideration. Or he doesn’t matter

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You might try a thesaurus. There are several online.

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Dispensable? Easily replaced? A faceless, interchangeable cog?

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I checked. I even mentioned some on my first thread, but because I’m still not extremely comfortable in English (I’m french), and can’t find the word that sounds peaceful. They all sound bad too me. I know the word in french: déconsidéré. Which is not taken into consideration. In english, it translates into discredited, which sounds bad and the definition doesn’t look good either.

Another way to see it, is how can you tell a person that he is ignored/discredited/overlooked/neglected without him getting mad or hurt, or whatever… A neutral, peaceful word.

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Another way to put it, is how can you tell a person that he is ignored/discredited/overlooked/neglected without him getting mad or hurt, or whatever… A neutral, peaceful word.

Perhaps:

You were so quiet that we didn’t notice you.

(I realize that that’s not one word.)

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I think I don’t express well enough what I want or that I’m looking for a word that doesn’t exist. There will always be some negativity (because we look at it negatively… philosophy!!!! ) in that kind of saying.

I think I’m going to go with neglected. The neglected employee. Can you relate to that?
A for the effort though big thanks

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Does insignificant work for you?

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Thanks for your help guys, but I’m going with neglected. Thanks for your help and time.

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I am not sure why it has to be an employee. (If I am a neglected employee couldn’t that mean they forget to pay me?)

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«Neglect» has the sense that someone is not doing something that he should. Are you trying to say that the employer is failing in some obligation to the employee?

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If you are saying that the employer does not care about the employee’s personal life then most employees are neglected. If you mean that the person is not part of the «in» crowd then that individual may or may not feel neglected.

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Guys!!!! Forget about it lol.
It has nothing to do with the employee and employer. You guys aren’t focusing on what I’m asking.
I only wanted the word. The employee thing was just a context unrelated of what I really want.

Because some of you won’t forget about it., here is the new question.

What’s a peaceful word for discredited, ignored…
But then it’s kind of a hard question, because it’s not accurate… So forget about it. »Neglected» is what I want for what I want to do. And hopefully you will know why one day.

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I am not sure what you mean by peaceful word. Certainly, a person who feels neglected is not happy about his/her situation. Perhaps if you could supply more context one of us would be able to be more helpful.

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I got my word. Neglected!
I actually need I little bit of negativity, so it’s fine.

Thanks a lot for your help man

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Often times someone will tell a long winded story, and then someone will reply with something like «So basically you just had a bad day.»

Another, I think better example is when someone will talk a lot about existentialism, and then someone else will reply with «So basically ‘to be or not to be, that is the question.'»

Or another example, someone will talk about Cuban-American relations after the cold war, and someone will reply with «So basically America plugged their ears and pretended Cuba didn’t exist.»

I don’t think the word ‘oversimplify’ is good enough, because it can actually increase the importance of something. For example «So basically if you don’t recycle, everyone will die of global warming.»

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Trivializing or trivialization doesn’t explicitly describe the act, but it describes the effect you’re talking about.

This is in conjunction with WS2’s answer: you reduce (or maybe minimize, as per Centaurus) the story to the point where it is trivial.

answered Feb 22, 2015 at 16:12

What you are talking about here is reduction, as expressed in reductionism or reductionist.

Reduction is a perfectly valid process, not only in mathematics — reducing a mathematical argument to its simplest form — but in things such as philosophy etc.

But the examples you give are of things, which I would assert are perversely reductionist.

The Oxford Dictionary Online does note that it is often DEROGATORY. Hence it may be possible to leave out the perversely, above, and sufficient to say the arguments are reductionist.

answered Feb 22, 2015 at 14:18

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The rhetorical device known as bathos is defined as

an abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace,
producing a ludicrous effect.

[Wikipedia]

answered Feb 22, 2015 at 15:14

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minimize — to treat or describe (something) as smaller or less important than it is Merriam-Webster

«I don’t mean to minimize his contributions, on the contrary.»
«During the interview, he tried to minimize his flaws.»

minimize — «to represent as having the least degree of importance, value, or size: minimized the magnitude of the crisis.» TFD

answered Feb 22, 2015 at 14:09

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How about ‘cut down’ ?

As in «he cut her speech down to a simplified version of several complex points»

Although this can have a wider meaning. But the words have both a specific meaning and a general hint of the negative aspects of reduction
as in ‘cut it out’ or ‘cut from the team’
and down as in lower or lesser in both senses.

Or else the more colloquial expression «dumbing down».

Although dumbing down does not always mean a shorter version , just one that is more accessible to a wider range of people including those without much intelligence!

answered Feb 22, 2015 at 17:20

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This is an example of when someone takes the opportunity to

downplay

Something someone else says

answered Feb 23, 2015 at 20:17

to give short shrift

Per Wiktionary:

A quick rejection, especially one which is impolite and undertaken without proper consideration.

In fact, I actually like the definition that Google puts at the top of the search page for the phrase even better:

rapid and unsympathetic dismissal; curt treatment.

Merriam-Webster and OED, however, favor the older definition from which this meaning is derived:

a brief space of time allowed for a criminal to make his confession before execution

^(OED)

1 : barely adequate time for confession before execution

^{(Merriam-Webster)}

answered Feb 23, 2015 at 20:35

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Underplay could work.
One could also use truncate but it should be accompanied by an adjective such as

a blunt truncation

a dismissive truncation

answered Feb 23, 2015 at 0:56

Condescend con·de·scend ˌkän-di-ˈsend verb -MW

1,a : to descend to a less formal or dignified level

I believe the OP was looking for a retort (to an accusation of superfluousness) along the lines of:

Do not condescend to me that existentialism is simply ‘to be or not to be’.

answered Mar 29, 2015 at 0:59

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I think a good word for doing something like that is ‘minimizing’

answered Feb 22, 2015 at 23:40

It’s a good starting point to look at hyperbole word and look at its opposites, that would be one of the words you need.
Per Wikipedia, «some opposites of hyperbole are meiosis, litotes, understatement, lackluster, prosaic, dull and bathos«.
Understatement is a universal word, but depending on a context, litotes, meiosis and others could be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

answered Feb 23, 2015 at 16:55

phrase

interjection

Americanspoken used for filling space while talking, either because you cannot remember what you want to say or because you think the details are not important

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Why we cannot be something is not important.

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Synonyms for Important

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Sometimes the word “important” isn’t sufficient. Here are a few other words you could use instead.

Here are other words you can use instead of “important.”

Important

Synonyms: essential, significant, crucial, substantial

What Does “Important” Mean?

Important means “of great significance or value,” and when referring to a person, “having high rank or status.”

It was important for my daughter that the whole family attend her ballet recital.

A few other words you can use instead of important are:

essential
critical
consequential
meaningful
momentous
significant
influential
crucial
substantial
major
monumental
pivotal

What Are Antonyms for “Important”?

Words with opposite meanings from that of important include:

unimportant
insignificant
meaningless
unsubstantial
nonessential
useless
unnecessary
minor

What Are Other Word Forms of “Important?”

The word important has a few other word forms. Here’s how to use them in a sentence:

1) Importantly: adverb used to state/emphasize a significant matter

Most importantly, though, the young siblings were reunited.

Importantly can also be used to refer to a self-important or pompous manner.

The man talked importantly, as if he were the President of the United States instead of just the president of the apartment complex.

2) Importance: noun used to refer to the quality of being important

It was of upmost importance for the package to be delivered on time.

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