trifling

trifling
Synonyms and related words:
Mickey Mouse, airy, asinine, banal, bickering, brimful, brimming, captious, catchpenny, caviling, chic, chipper, chitchat, chitter-chatter, choplogic, classy, commonplace, coquetry, crammed, crowded, cursory, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dashing, dawdling, depthless, dillydallying, dolce far niente, empty, equivocatory, evasive, fashionable, fatuous, few, fiddling, flimsy, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, foolish, footling, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, hollow, idle, idling, inane, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, insipid, jammed, jejune, jerking off, kidding around, lazing, light, lingering, little, loaded, loafing, logic-chopping, loitering, lolling, lounging, low, meager, measly, messing around, miniature, minor, modish, monkeying, monkeying around, mopery, neat, negligible, niggling, nit-picking, no great shakes, nugacious, nugatory, orderly, otiose, packed, paltering, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, puny, pussyfooting, puttering, quibbling, shallow, sharp, shipshape, short, shuffling, silly, skin-deep, slender, slight, small, smart, smattering, snappy, snug, spick-and-span, superficial, swank, tarrying, tidy, tinkering, tiny, toying, trichoschistic, trig, trim, trite, trivial, uncluttered, unimportant, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, well-groomed, windy, worthless

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  • Trifling — Tri fling, a. Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. {Tri fling*ly}, adv. {Tri fling*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • trifling — index collateral (immaterial), de minimus, expendable, frivolous, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable …   Law dictionary

  • trifling — trivial, *petty, puny, paltry, measly, picayunish, picayune Analogous words: inane, wishy washy, banal, jejune, vapid, *insipid: *vain, idle, otiose, nugatory, empty, hollow: *venial, pardonable …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • trifling — [adj] insignificant, worthless banal, dinky*, empty, forget it*, frivolous, hollow, idle, idling, inane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insipid, jejune, loitering, measly, minuscule, negligible, niggling*, no big deal*, no big thing*, nugatory …   New thesaurus

  • trifling — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unimportant or trivial. DERIVATIVES triflingly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • trifling — [trī′fliŋ] adj. 1. that trifles; frivolous; shallow; fickle 2. having little value or importance; trivial triflingly adv …   English World dictionary

  • trifling — Verb: Making play of another s affections. Adjective: Trivial. Paltry. Of little value; of little moment. Under the rule that an injunction will be denied where the injury complained of is of a trifling character which may be readily compensated… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • trifling — [[t]tra͟ɪfəlɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: oft a ADJ amount A trifling matter is small and unimportant. The guests had each paid ₤250, no trifling sum... Outside California these difficulties may seem fairly trifling. ...a comparatively trifling 360 yards.… …   English dictionary

  • trifling — adjective Date: 1535 lacking in significance or solid worth: as a. frivolous < trifling talk > b. trivial < a trifling gift > c. chiefly dialect lazy, shiftless < a trifling fellow > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • trifling — triflingly, adv. triflingness, n. /truy fling/, adj. 1. of very little importance; trivial; insignificant: a trifling matter. 2. of small value, cost, or amount: a trifling sum. 3. frivolous; shallow; light: trifling conversation. 4. mean;… …   Universalium

  • trifling — tri|fling [ˈtraıflıŋ] adj unimportant or of little value ▪ a trifling sum ▪ matters of trifling importance …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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