Definition for Frippery:

• Finery, needless or tawdry adornment esp. in dress; empty display esp. in literary style; knick-knacks, trifles. [ old French]

Synonyms for Frippery:

• n.

  •
  • rubbish,
  • muck.
  •
  • attire,
  • array,
  • put on,
  • regalia.
  •
  • nonsense,
  • important,
  • trifle,
  • surface.
  •a decoration (noun)
  • adornment.
  •adornment (noun)
  • fandangle,
  • floss,
  • flosses,
  • fandangles,
  • jazz,
  • furbelows,
  • furbelow.
  •artifact (noun)
  • fluff,
  • bagatelle,
  • frivolity,
  • frippery.
  •attire (noun)
  • clothing.
  •clothes (noun)
  • duds.
  •clothes/clothing (noun)
  • tout ensemble,
  • rigging,
  • vesture,
  • Muftis,
  • drapery,
  • tailleurs,
  • tatter,
  • mufti,
  • trousseaux,
  • tout ensembles,
  • out fits,
  • out fit,
  • hand me downs,
  • Draperies,
  • under-clothes,
  • out-fits,
  • overclothes,
  • weeds,
  • trousseau,
  • tatters,
  • full feather,
  • livery,
  • underclotheses,
  • threads,
  • trousseaus,
  • overclotheses,
  • hand me down,
  • tailleur,
  • hand-me-down,
  • Liveries,
  • underclothes,
  • zoot suits,
  • weed,
  • get-ups,
  • under clothes,
  • zoot suit,
  • out-fit,
  • full feathers,
  • sunday bests,
  • over-clothes,
  • toggeries,
  • get ups,
  • vestures,
  • Toggery,
  • over clothes,
  • hand-me-downs,
  • get-up,
  • civvies.
  •decoration (noun)
  • tinsel,
  • fretwork,
  • tooling,
  • gingerbreads,
  • de-sign,
  • applique,
  • parquetries,
  • de sign,
  • GILTS,
  • arabesques,
  • tinsels,
  • fretworks,
  • parquetry,
  • curlicues,
  • in-lay,
  • curlicue,
  • in-lays,
  • flounce,
  • appliques,
  • gingerbread,
  • de-signs,
  • extravagance,
  • in lays,
  • trinket,
  • arabesque,
  • de signs,
  • in lay,
  • toolings.
  •display (noun)
  • dis plays,
  • ex-positions,
  • grandstand play,
  • arrayal,
  • for show,
  • frameup,
  • re-velations,
  • dis-play,
  • re velations,
  • ex ample,
  • exhibition,
  • dis-plays,
  • ostentatiousness,
  • frame up,
  • panoply,
  • frame-up,
  • expo,
  • frameups,
  • arrayals,
  • pre tensions,
  • showboats,
  • dis play,
  • EXPOS,
  • frame ups,
  • ex-position,
  • bravuras,
  • ostentatiousnesses,
  • pre-tensions,
  • bravure,
  • showboat,
  • re velation,
  • exposure,
  • re-velation,
  • ex-ample,
  • frame-ups,
  • grandstand plays,
  • Bravura,
  • pedantry,
  • un-folding,
  • un folding.
  •finery (noun)
  • trumpery,
  • trifles,
  • gewgaws.
  •frill (noun)
  • Foppery,
  • Fopperies.
  •frivolity (noun)
  • Puerilities,
  • coquettings,
  • frivolousness,
  • flummery,
  • triflings,
  • Fribble,
  • shallownesses,
  • toyings,
  • fribbles,
  • non-senses,
  • flummeries,
  • jest,
  • whimsicality,
  • puerility,
  • superficiality,
  • non-sense,
  • dallyings,
  • non sense,
  • frivolousnesses,
  • shallowness,
  • superficialities,
  • trifling,
  • whimsicalities,
  • non senses.
  •gems (noun)
  • jewelry.
  •small potatoes (noun)
  • small-potatoes.
  •waste, nonsense (noun)
  • meretriciousness,
  • tawdriness,
  • bauble,
  • showiness,
  • ostentation,
  • ornament,
  • fanciness,
  • gaudiness,
  • fussiness,
  • knickknack,
  • flashiness,
  • pretentiousness,
  • toy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • frill,
  • minutia,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • small potatoes,
  • dreck,
  • white elephant,
  • gimmick,
  • trivia,
  • snake oil.
  •
  • display,
  • decoration,
  • small change,
  • finery.
  •
  • triviality,
  • froth.
  •waste matter
  • trash.

Antonyms for Frippery:

• n.

  • waste, nonsense
    plainness.
  • Other antonyms:
    disarray, dishabille, tatters.

Frippery Sentence Examples:

• All frippery and decoration had long been stripped from the army.

• This modern world, of which we English and Americans are perhaps the truest types, stands revealed, from beneath its froth, frippery, and vulgar excrescences, sound at core - a world whose implicit motto is: " The good of all humanity."

Hyponym for Frippery:

• n.

  • artifact
    trifle, small beer, triviality, trivia.