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insect
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of INSECT
a person of no importance or influence <the magazine's editor in chief was notorious for treating staffers as insects, often not even bothering to learn their names>
Synonyms cipher, dwarf, half-pint, insect, insignificancy, lightweight, morsel, nonentity, nothing, nullity, number, pip-squeak, pygmy (also pigmy), shrimp, snippersnapper, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch
Related Words no-name, noncelebrity; least; inferior, mediocrity, obscurity; figurehead, puppet; nonperson
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