piffling 1
adjectivedomain: all adj
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
(informal) small and of little importance
Examples
- 1.a dispute over niggling details
- 2.giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
- 3.our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
- 4.a little (or small) matter
- 5.limited to petty enterprises
- 6.a fiddling sum of money
- 7.piffling efforts
- 8.a footling gesture
Synonyms
- fiddling 1
(informal) small and of little importance
- footling 1
(informal) small and of little importance
- lilliputian 3
(informal) small and of little importance
- little 4
(informal) small and of little importance
- niggling 1
(informal) small and of little importance
- piddling 1
(informal) small and of little importance
- petty 2
(informal) small and of little importance
- picayune 1
(informal) small and of little importance
- trivial 1
(informal) small and of little importance
