TRIFLING - 12 definitions found
trifling adj 1: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" [syn: negligible, paltry, trifling] n 1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working [syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling] trifling flirting Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) 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> Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary trifling A trifling matter is small and unimportant. Outside California these difficulties may seem fairly trifling. ...a comparatively trifling 360 yards. = trivial ADJ: oft a ADJ amount English Explanatory Dictionary trifling ˈtraɪflɪŋ adj. 1 unimportant, petty. 2 frivolous. øøtriflingly adv. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Trifle \Tri"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trifling.] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.] To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. --Hooker. To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms trifling a. Trivial, petty, frivolous, frippery, worthless, inconsiderable, nugatory, slight, unimportant, insignificant, immaterial, piddling, of little value or consequence, of no moment, of small importance. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) trifling ˈtraɪflɪŋ adj. trivial, insignificant, unimportant, puny, minor, paltry, slight, petty, inconsequential, frivolous, superficial, incidental, negligible, commonplace, inconsiderable, shallow, valueless, worthless, US and Canadian picayune, Colloq piddling: Their contribution to musical scholarship has been trifling. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 142 Moby Thesaurus words for "trifling": 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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