Trifling
['traɪflɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trifle
(a.) Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
Editor: Rae
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Trivial, petty, frivolous, worthless, inconsiderable, nugatory, slight, unimportant, insignificant, immaterial, piddling, of little value or consequence, of no moment, of small importance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trivial, slight, petty, frivolous, unimportant, inconsiderable, worthless,[SeeARTIFICE]
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Examples
- It made her blood run sharp, to be thwarted in even so trifling a matter. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- One, the most trifling part of my duty, remains undischarged. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds was of no trifling nature. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- There must be no trifling with HER affections, poor dear. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At the same time, it must be observed that a very trifling addition or change occasionally gives practical value to an invention, which had been useless without it. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But ladies in carriages would frequently make purchases from her trifling stock, and were usually pleased with her bright eyes and her hopeful speech. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These ornaments are of value, yet are they trifling to what he would bestow to obtain our dismissal from this castle, free and uninjured. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He had no iron mastery of his sensations now; a trifling emotion made itself apparent in his present weak state. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He is a benevolent fellow, and has, besides, an intellect of his own of no trifling calibre. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These were, however, but trifling. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His first step is to take himself to Lady Dedlock's rooms and look all over them for any trifling indication that may help him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Winthrop