Both Uses
negligible
in
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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- And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means that they are so small you don't have to take them into account when you are calculating something.†
Chpt 179 *
- And that night, just after I got home, Father came back to the house and I screamed but Mother said she wouldn't let anything bad happen to me and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.†
Chpt 233
Definitions:
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(1)
(negligible) so small as to be not worth considering
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)