Synonyms for Petty:

• adj.

  •empty (adjective)
  • meaningless,
  • in sincere,
  • dis honest,
  • in-expressive,
  • un-substantial,
  • de-void,
  • in-sincere,
  • insincere,
  • in sincerer,
  • un intelligent,
  • empty,
  • un satisfactory,
  • un-real,
  • de void,
  • in expressive,
  • in-sincerer,
  • in effectual,
  • un substantial,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • un real,
  • in-sincerest,
  • in-effectual,
  • dis-honest,
  • in sincerest,
  • in sipid,
  • in-sipid,
  • un-intelligent.
  •exiguous (adjective)
  • meager,
  • tiny.
  •few (adjective)
  • occasional,
  • widely spaced,
  • some,
  • not many,
  • not too many,
  • middling,
  • insufficient,
  • Unfrequent,
  • few and far between,
  • scarcely any,
  • few,
  • semioccasional.
  •fine (adjective)
  • un polluted,
  • more fine-spun,
  • most fine-spun,
  • fine spun,
  • un adulterated,
  • most hairline,
  • more hairline,
  • most fine spun,
  • more fine spun,
  • re fined,
  • most unpolluted,
  • un-adulterated,
  • most enigmatic,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • more hairsplitting,
  • more unpolluted,
  • un-polluted.
  •frivolous (adjective)
  • light-minded,
  • tongue-in-cheek,
  • sportive,
  • un profoundest,
  • un-profoundest,
  • most light minded,
  • un-profounder,
  • more light-minded,
  • more nonserious,
  • non serious,
  • flippest,
  • light minded,
  • empty headed,
  • ill considered,
  • non-serious,
  • un profounder,
  • unprofoundest,
  • unprofounder,
  • un profound,
  • more lightminded,
  • flighty,
  • illconsidered,
  • nonserious,
  • lightminded,
  • unprofound,
  • playful,
  • more light minded,
  • un-profound,
  • most light-minded,
  • most sportive,
  • ill-considered,
  • most lightminded,
  • most nonserious,
  • facetious.
  •hateful (adjective)
  • malicious.
  •humble (adjective)
  • unassuming,
  • menial,
  • low-ranking,
  • proletarian,
  • Low-born,
  • unpretentious.
  •ignoble (adjective)
  • de-graded,
  • dis-graceful,
  • de generate,
  • scurvier,
  • dis-honorable,
  • de graded,
  • scurviest,
  • de-generate,
  • dis graceful,
  • un washed,
  • in famous,
  • most peasant,
  • un-washed,
  • dis honorable,
  • more peasant.
  •inconsequent (adjective)
  • in consequent,
  • in-consequent.
  •inconsequential (adjective)
  • entry level,
  • in-consequential,
  • two bit,
  • in consequential.
  •inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
  • more entry-level,
  • in appreciable,
  • runter,
  • more entrylevel,
  • in considerable,
  • more shoestring,
  • runtest,
  • in-considerable,
  • wimpiest,
  • most entry level,
  • un considered,
  • un-considered,
  • in-appreciable,
  • most shoestring,
  • most entry-level,
  • wimpier,
  • entrylevel,
  • most entrylevel,
  • twobit,
  • more entry level.
  •insignificant (adjective)
  • irrelevant,
  • more minim,
  • most minimal,
  • in-significant,
  • in significant,
  • more purportless,
  • most purportless,
  • most minim.
  •insubstantial (adjective)
  • in firmer,
  • un-sounder,
  • in-substantial,
  • in firmest,
  • too little too late,
  • in substantial,
  • in-tangible,
  • fly by night,
  • un-sound,
  • in tangible,
  • meta-physical,
  • un sound,
  • un-soundest,
  • in-firmest,
  • in-corporeal,
  • un sounder,
  • in firm,
  • in-firmer,
  • meta physical,
  • in corporeal.
  •insular (adjective)
  • more circumscribed,
  • more inward-looking,
  • inward-looking,
  • most contracted,
  • more inwardlooking,
  • inward looking,
  • most inward looking,
  • inwardlooking,
  • more contracted,
  • most inward-looking,
  • more sequestered,
  • most sequestered,
  • most inwardlooking,
  • more inward looking,
  • most circumscribed.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • cantankerous,
  • prickly,
  • huffy,
  • touchy,
  • snappish,
  • crusty,
  • cross,
  • peevish,
  • petulant,
  • caustic,
  • bellicose,
  • bitchy,
  • acrimonious,
  • sour,
  • irritable,
  • irascible,
  • surly,
  • spiteful,
  • bitter,
  • tart,
  • cranky,
  • bearish,
  • crabbed,
  • churlish,
  • acid,
  • acerbic.
  •light (adjective)
  • unheavy,
  • Imponderous,
  • featherweight,
  • light-footed,
  • Gossamery,
  • lightest,
  • lithe,
  • sylphlike,
  • Floatable,
  • weightless,
  • frothy,
  • tissuelike.
  •lightweight (adjective)
  • of no account.
  •little (adjective)
  • hidebound,
  • self-centered,
  • inconsequent,
  • least.
  •malicious (adjective)
  • evil minded,
  • most illdisposed,
  • bad natured,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • un-cool,
  • most cussed,
  • de-spiteful,
  • more cussed,
  • un cool,
  • greeneyed,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • more badnatured,
  • more uncool,
  • most badnatured,
  • more illdisposed,
  • venomous,
  • most uncool,
  • green eyed,
  • more bad natured,
  • most bad natured,
  • evilminded,
  • badnatured,
  • illdisposed,
  • beastliest,
  • ill disposed,
  • most ill disposed,
  • more ill disposed,
  • most bad-natured,
  • de spiteful,
  • beastlier,
  • more bad-natured.
  •mean (adjective)
  • second-rate,
  • secondrate,
  • down-at-heel,
  • second rate,
  • second-class,
  • lowborn,
  • down at heel,
  • second class.
  •minor (adjective)
  • more secondstring,
  • most accessory,
  • most small-fry,
  • bushleague,
  • more smallfry,
  • more small-fry,
  • most junior,
  • more accessory,
  • most second-string,
  • below mark,
  • smallfry,
  • more small fry,
  • most smallfry,
  • de-pendent,
  • more second-string,
  • more younger,
  • most small fry,
  • de pendent,
  • most younger,
  • most secondstring,
  • sub ordinate,
  • most second string,
  • secondstring,
  • sub-ordinate,
  • more second string.
  •minor-league (adjective)
  • most subaltern,
  • minorleague,
  • sub-altern,
  • more subaltern,
  • minor-league,
  • sub altern.
  •narrow-minded (adjective)
  • opinionated,
  • Unenlarged,
  • small-minded.
  •negligible (adjective)
  • out side,
  • re-mote.
  •nonessential (adjective)
  • in essential,
  • un-necessary,
  • non essential,
  • more deadwood,
  • un necessary,
  • in-essential,
  • most deadwood.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • narrow-minded,
  • exploitative,
  • ungenerous,
  • parochial,
  • below the mark,
  • piddly,
  • Non-essential,
  • shrimp,
  • smalltime,
  • pennypinching,
  • light as a feather,
  • under-sized,
  • ignoble,
  • exiguous,
  • casuistic,
  • paltry,
  • minor,
  • babylike,
  • vain,
  • mean,
  • beside point,
  • nonessential,
  • picayune,
  • flipper,
  • insignificant,
  • tongue in cheek,
  • insubstantial,
  • measly,
  • big zero,
  • small-fry,
  • lightweight,
  • niggling,
  • half-pint,
  • shoestring,
  • peewee,
  • shrimper,
  • niggardly,
  • humble,
  • Substract,
  • niggard,
  • secondary,
  • stingy,
  • entry-level,
  • lowdown,
  • scrimpy,
  • unscrupulous,
  • unconscientious,
  • ill-disposed,
  • not serious,
  • unfair,
  • puerile,
  • no biggie,
  • uncool,
  • light,
  • emptyheaded,
  • frivolous,
  • small,
  • pint-sized,
  • Commiserable,
  • unsporting,
  • unrightful,
  • hairline,
  • pathetic,
  • ungrown,
  • rinkydink,
  • puny,
  • low-down,
  • slight,
  • hardfisted,
  • Deadwood,
  • unimportant,
  • Purportless,
  • inconsequential,
  • provincial,
  • derisory,
  • negligible,
  • Fine-spun,
  • wimpy,
  • not worth mentioning,
  • unpolluted,
  • bad-natured,
  • scurvy,
  • unfledged,
  • Unconsequential,
  • second-string,
  • excess baggage,
  • small fry,
  • small-time,
  • no big deal.
  •paltry (adjective)
  • most derisory,
  • more lowdown,
  • low down,
  • most low-down,
  • more derisory,
  • most unconsequential,
  • un-consequential,
  • most low down,
  • more low down,
  • un consequential,
  • more low-down,
  • most lowdown,
  • more unconsequential.
  •parochial (adjective)
  • small town,
  • smalltown.
  •pathetic (adjective)
  • more commiserable,
  • most commiserable.
  •piddling (adjective)
  • more peanut,
  • most peanut,
  • most pettifogging,
  • more pettifogging.
  •piddly (adjective)
  • most rinky-dink,
  • more rinkydink,
  • diddlier,
  • rinky dink,
  • diddliest,
  • scrimpiest,
  • un-productive,
  • most rinkydink,
  • more rinky dink,
  • un productive,
  • more rinky-dink,
  • scrimpier,
  • most rinky dink.
  •pinching (adjective)
  • hard fisted,
  • most niggard,
  • most niggardly,
  • more niggard.
  •provincial (adjective)
  • un informed,
  • un sophisticated,
  • un-informed,
  • un polished.
  •puerile (adjective)
  • more unfledged,
  • un-fledged,
  • more ungrown,
  • most babylike,
  • un grown,
  • more babylike,
  • in-experienced,
  • most unfledged,
  • un fledged,
  • most ungrown,
  • in experienced,
  • un-grown.
  •puny (adjective)
  • more halfpint,
  • most half pint,
  • more pint sized,
  • most peewee,
  • more nothing,
  • most nothing,
  • zilchest,
  • most halfpint,
  • halfpint,
  • half pint,
  • most pint sized,
  • most half-pint,
  • most zero,
  • more half-pint,
  • more peewee,
  • zilcher,
  • most pint-sized,
  • un-developed,
  • shrimpest,
  • under sized,
  • more zero,
  • more half pint,
  • more pint-sized,
  • pint sized.
  •secondary (adjective)
  • most backup,
  • reliefest,
  • re liefest,
  • most reserve,
  • more under,
  • more substract,
  • more backup,
  • re-liefest,
  • most under,
  • re-serve,
  • more reserve,
  • reliefer,
  • re-liefer,
  • re serve,
  • re liefer,
  • re lief,
  • re-lief,
  • most substract.
  •shallow (adjective)
  • uncritical,
  • shallower.
  •slight (adjective)
  • un essential,
  • un-essential.
  •small (adjective)
  • bitty,
  • Toyer,
  • pocket-sized.
  •small-minded (adjective)
  • in tolerant,
  • smallminded,
  • small minded.
  •small-time (adjective)
  • small time.
  •stingy (adjective)
  • closefisted,
  • ironfisted,
  • thrifty,
  • frugal,
  • cheeseparing,
  • austere,
  • abstemious,
  • Pinchpenny,
  • parsimonious,
  • pennywise,
  • ascetic,
  • Ungiving,
  • narrow-fisted,
  • tight,
  • spartan,
  • penny-pinching,
  • Hard-fisted,
  • miserly.
  •trifling (adjective)
  • idling,
  • no big thing,
  • most loitering,
  • forget it,
  • more loitering.
  •trivial, insignificant (adjective)
  • penny-ante.
  •unfair (adjective)
  • un due,
  • in-equitable,
  • one sided,
  • un just,
  • un-justifiable,
  • un lawful,
  • dis criminatory,
  • dis-creditable,
  • un-fairest,
  • most unrightful,
  • un-duest,
  • un-reasonable,
  • dis creditable,
  • un-rightful,
  • most unsporting,
  • more unsporting,
  • un-fair,
  • in excusable,
  • un-sporting,
  • onesided,
  • un justifiable,
  • un-justest,
  • un rightful,
  • most cheating,
  • in equitable,
  • un sporting,
  • un duest,
  • un fair,
  • un fairest,
  • more cheating,
  • un ethical,
  • un-duer,
  • un-principled,
  • in-excusable,
  • un fairer,
  • un-juster,
  • un justest,
  • un-ethical,
  • un-just,
  • un juster,
  • un-fairer,
  • dis-criminatory,
  • un-lawful,
  • uncalledfor,
  • un-due,
  • more unrightful,
  • un-warranted,
  • un principled,
  • un reasonable.
  •ungenerous (adjective)
  • un generous,
  • un-generous.
  •unimportant (adjective)
  • zipper,
  • diminished,
  • of no consequence,
  • meretricious,
  • of no consequence/of little consequence,
  • Podunk.
  •unscrupulous (adjective)
  • more casuistic,
  • selfseeking,
  • most casuistic,
  • un scrupulous,
  • under-handed,
  • more unconscientious,
  • un worthier,
  • de-grading,
  • two faced,
  • un-conscionable,
  • de grading,
  • un-worthier,
  • under handed,
  • more exploitative,
  • self seeking,
  • un worthiest,
  • most unconscientious,
  • un-worthiest,
  • under-hand,
  • un-scrupulous,
  • un worthy,
  • un conscionable,
  • most exploitative,
  • twofaced,
  • un conscientious,
  • un-conscientious,
  • under hand.
  •vain (adjective)
  • going nowhere,
  • profitless,
  • unnotable,
  • in vicious circle,
  • on a treadmill,
  • on treadmill,
  • no-win,
  • Shucker,
  • time-wasting,
  • not a prayer.
  •weightless (adjective)
  • light as feather.

• n.

  •
  • bad-tempered,
  • temperamental,
  • sensitive,
  • hot-tempered,
  • short-tempered,
  • fractious,
  • moody.
  •
  • limited,
  • wide.
  •
  • cheap,
  • give.
  •
  • low,
  • over.
  •fiddling (noun)
  • fiddling.
  •footling (noun)
  • footling.
  •inferior (noun)
  • undersized,
  • weak.
  •junior-grade (noun)
  • junior-grade.
  •lilliputian (noun)
  • lilliputian.
  •lower (noun)
  • lower.
  •lower-ranking (noun)
  • lower-ranking.
  •lowly (noun)
  • lowly.
  •narrow (noun)
  • narrow.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • larceny,
  • thieving,
  • theft,
  • quantity,
  • thievery,
  • little,
  • stealing.

• v.

  •mean (verb)
  • close-minded,
  • insular.
  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • reduction,
  • size.

• Other synonyms:

  •Mickey Mouse
  • mickey mouse.
  •
  • costive,
  • close-fisted,
  • Pinching.
  •
  • junior,
  • inconsiderable,
  • nugatory,
  • penurious,
  • shallow,
  • tightfisted,
  • lesser,
  • minor league,
  • trifling,
  • poor.
  •
  • under.
  •
  • close.
  •frivolous
  • futile.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • fussy,
  • unequal,
  • dwarfish,
  • bush-league,
  • sou,
  • underage,
  • stuffy,
  • fulsome,
  • arrant,
  • choplogic,
  • constricted,
  • little child,
  • Cashbook,
  • microscopic,
  • good sum,
  • pedestrian,
  • closed,
  • unworthy,
  • paltering,
  • uncultivated,
  • incompetent,
  • imperceptible,
  • ancillary,
  • commonplace,
  • lumpen,
  • penny ante,
  • newspaper,
  • squat,
  • rouleau,
  • Court-baron,
  • subordinate,
  • minute,
  • cramped,
  • journal,
  • cramp,
  • airy,
  • literal-minded,
  • piffling,
  • corny,
  • unfit,
  • substandard,
  • fraud,
  • scrubby,
  • evasive,
  • ephemeris,
  • finicky,
  • fundamentalist,
  • slim,
  • unprofessional,
  • impertinent,
  • no great shakes,
  • court of record,
  • intolerant,
  • partial,
  • dapper,
  • imperfect,
  • gazetteer,
  • almanac,
  • dwarf,
  • squalid,
  • namby-pamby,
  • heinous,
  • runty,
  • unintelligent,
  • isolated,
  • Trinal,
  • unoriginal,
  • carping,
  • money-grubbing,
  • literature,
  • fanatical,
  • Depthless,
  • mangy,
  • nice,
  • farcical,
  • ineligible,
  • twopenny,
  • baseborn,
  • bigoted,
  • unmerited,
  • near-sighted,
  • stereotyped,
  • common,
  • mercenary,
  • obnoxious,
  • debased,
  • pocket money,
  • fastidious,
  • bickering,
  • prejudiced,
  • rank,
  • maladroit,
  • pocket,
  • in quantity,
  • sorry,
  • pardonable,
  • abject,
  • short-sighted,
  • regional,
  • scientific literature,
  • hairsplitting,
  • shilling,
  • unchanging,
  • unprogressive,
  • ridiculous,
  • tight-fisted,
  • miniature,
  • rap,
  • Borne,
  • unworldly,
  • unmentionable,
  • meagre,
  • mediocre,
  • illiberal,
  • rigid,
  • ordinary,
  • high treason,
  • pitiable,
  • shoddy,
  • assize,
  • Fribble,
  • wampum,
  • Picayunish,
  • small change,
  • selfish,
  • incidental,
  • mingy,
  • wee,
  • shuffling,
  • grudging,
  • pollard,
  • hackneyed,
  • bigot,
  • nefarious,
  • Eyre,
  • very small,
  • jerkwater,
  • court of appeal,
  • gazette,
  • daybook,
  • unessential,
  • authoritarian,
  • mite,
  • hedging,
  • banal,
  • dogmatic,
  • spare,
  • tester,
  • calendar,
  • idle,
  • peculation,
  • Stiver,
  • powerless,
  • conventional,
  • hair-splitting,
  • twopenny-halfpenny,
  • venial,
  • deaf,
  • shyster,
  • quibbling,
  • trivial,
  • tinhorn,
  • peanut,
  • narrow gauge,
  • remittable,
  • Cavilling,
  • two-bit,
  • unsubstantial,
  • beggarly,
  • stock,
  • inane,
  • lowercase,
  • secession,
  • review article,
  • platitudinous,
  • Fingle-fangle,
  • foolish,
  • petite,
  • inappreciable,
  • Barmote,
  • minuscule,
  • wretched,
  • gross,
  • stiff,
  • near,
  • unsophisticated,
  • hack,
  • unqualified,
  • defection,
  • forgivable,
  • almanack,
  • unconsidered,
  • non-objective,
  • Court-leet,
  • unimaginative,
  • sectarian,
  • treason,
  • modest,
  • tired,
  • scanty,
  • Fault-finding,
  • vile,
  • two-by-four,
  • despicable,
  • disreputable,
  • crummy,
  • foul,
  • excusable,
  • sedition,
  • Tolerated,
  • meritless,
  • deficient,
  • scratch,
  • dishonourable,
  • uncharitable,
  • immovable,
  • old-fogyish,
  • teeny,
  • shabby,
  • flimsy,
  • worthless,
  • restricted,
  • casual,
  • uncultured,
  • Duodecimo,
  • sessions,
  • peripheral,
  • ledger,
  • shoplifting,
  • pigmy,
  • cheesy,
  • round sum,
  • younger,
  • embezzlement,
  • short,
  • Mutinousness,
  • frail,
  • elfin,
  • unaccommodating,
  • chicken,
  • jejune,
  • groat,
  • small beer,
  • useless,
  • everyday,
  • disgusting,
  • slender,
  • unskillful,
  • petit larceny,
  • strait-laced,
  • Dwarfed,
  • police court,
  • scummy,
  • Pimping,
  • conservative,
  • base,
  • trite,
  • one-sided,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • subaltern,
  • myopic,
  • skin-deep,
  • caviling,
  • nickel-and-dime,
  • Portative,
  • Petit,
  • hypercritical,
  • red-necked,
  • feeble,
  • immaterial,
  • mini,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • inadequate,
  • pettifogging,
  • pitiful,
  • stunted,
  • reactionary,
  • flagrant,
  • out of it,
  • intractable,
  • puritanical,
  • inessential,
  • tolerable,
  • dirty,
  • pygmy,
  • nearsighted,
  • depraved,
  • atrocious,
  • midget,
  • odious,
  • Flyspeck,
  • Premunire,
  • smaller,
  • piddling,
  • log,
  • marginal,
  • closed-minded,
  • stiff-necked,
  • fine,
  • shortsighted,
  • lump sum,
  • reptilian,
  • rinky-dink,
  • obscure,
  • superficial,
  • peddling,
  • dull,
  • monstrous,
  • guinea,
  • diary,
  • magazine,
  • abominable,
  • ultra-conservative,
  • grave,
  • captious,
  • Burghmote,
  • brief,
  • valueless,
  • small-scale,
  • Ungifted,
  • stinting,
  • Doit,
  • miniscule,
  • daily,
  • blinkered,
  • contemptible,
  • dinky,
  • mere,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • Minikin,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • penny,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • humdrum,
  • biased,
  • unchangeable,
  • pokey,
  • Equivocatory,
  • county court,
  • old fashioned,
  • remote,
  • scabby,
  • skimpy,
  • poky,
  • change,
  • silly,
  • grand larceny,
  • scruffy,
  • pussyfooting,
  • punk,
  • one-horse,
  • local,
  • discreditable,
  • wishy-washy,
  • execrable,
  • farthing,
  • stereotypical,
  • weensy,
  • bantam,
  • straitlaced,
  • square,
  • undeserving,
  • district court,
  • miserable,
  • petticoat,
  • low-level,
  • Remissible,
  • Wardmote,
  • lese majeste,
  • finical,
  • stolid,
  • dumpy,
  • degraded,
  • potty,
  • purblind,
  • portable,
  • petty larceny,
  • nominal,
  • unchivalrous,
  • snide,
  • nit-picking,
  • quarter sessions,
  • cursory,
  • expendable,
  • plum,
  • inferior,
  • article,
  • stubborn,
  • Finikin,
  • diminutive,
  • cheese-paring,
  • misprision of treason.

Paraphrases for Petty:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    trivial.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    petty-minded.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    insignificant, slight, paltry, tiny, narrow, miserly, miniature, negligible, miserable, small-sized, inconsiderable, small-time, pathetic, meaningless, unimportant, modest, shabby, derisory, out-of-pocket, measly.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    small-minded, small-scale, narrow-minded.

Antonyms for Petty:

• adj.

  • trivial, insignificant
    first-rate, enormous, necessary, important, great, greater, large, useful, significant, big, consequential, immense, major, superior, first-class, huge.
  • Other antonyms:
    measurable, open-minded, senior, catholic, objective, noteworthy, outstanding, discernible, prominent, appreciable, unbiased, nonpartisan, serious, cosmopolitan, impartial, of import, remarkable, conspicuous, striking, receptive, unprejudiced, pivotal, tolerant, weighty, freethinking.

Homophones for Petty:

• Petit, petie, Pettey, pettie, petti.