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floccinaucinihilipilification
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌflɒk.sɪ.nɔː.sɪ.nɪ.hɪl.ɪ.pɪl.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌflɑːk.sɪ.nɔː.sɪ.nɪ.hɪl.ɪ.pɪl.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of considering something to be not at all important or useful - used mainly as an example of a very long word: 藐视，蔑视（主要作为长单词的例子）
The honour of being the longest non-technical word goes to floccinaucinihilipilification.最长的非技术性词汇当属floccinaucinihilipilification。
Senator Jesse Helms used the delightful word "floccinaucinihilipilification".
I used floccinaucinihilipilification in an essay once and the teacher wrote in the margin "I'm not giving you extra marks for this."
The word "floccinaucinihilipilification" means "the estimation of something as worthless". It's an 18th-century coinage that combines four Latin prefixes meaning "nothing".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Of little or less importance
be in/under someone's shadowidiom
be neither here nor thereidiom
big deal
biggie
derisory
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
mere
merely
picture
piddling
piddly
piffling
play second fiddleidiom
unserious
unseriousness
venial
vestigial
vestigially
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