What is another word for petty?
1066 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pˈɛti], [ pˈɛti], [ p_ˈɛ_t_i]
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Similar words for petty:
- empty (adjective)
- exiguous (adjective)
- few (adjective)
- fine (adjective)
- frivolous (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- ignoble (adjective)
- inconsequent (adjective)
- inconsequential (adjective)
- inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
- insignificant (adjective)
- insubstantial (adjective)
- insular (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- lightweight (adjective)
- little (adjective)
- malicious (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- minor (adjective)
- minor-league (adjective)
- narrow-minded (adjective)
- negligible (adjective)
- nonessential (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- paltry (adjective)
- parochial (adjective)
- pathetic (adjective)
- piddling (adjective)
- piddly (adjective)
- pinching (adjective)
- provincial (adjective)
- puerile (adjective)
- puny (adjective)
- secondary (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- small-minded (adjective)
- small-time (adjective)
- stingy (adjective)
- trifling (adjective)
- trivial, insignificant (adjective)
- unfair (adjective)
- ungenerous (adjective)
- unimportant (adjective)
- unscrupulous (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- weightless (adjective)
- fiddling (noun)
- footling (noun)
- inferior (noun)
- junior-grade (noun)
- lilliputian (noun)
- lower (noun)
- lower-ranking (noun)
- lowly (noun)
- narrow (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- mean (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- Mickey Mouse
- frivolous
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
- occasional,
- widely spaced,
- some,
- not many,
- not too many,
- middling,
- insufficient,
- Unfrequent,
- few and far between,
- scarcely any,
- few,
- semioccasional.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- irrelevant,
- more minim,
- most minimal,
- in-significant,
- in significant,
- more purportless,
- most purportless,
- most minim.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- unheavy,
- Imponderous,
- featherweight,
- light-footed,
- Gossamery,
- lightest,
- lithe,
- sylphlike,
- Floatable,
- weightless,
- frothy,
- tissuelike.
- 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.
- second-rate,
- secondrate,
- down-at-heel,
- second rate,
- second-class,
- lowborn,
- down at heel,
- second class.
- 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.
- in essential,
- un-necessary,
- non essential,
- more deadwood,
- un necessary,
- in-essential,
- most deadwood.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- more unfledged,
- un-fledged,
- more ungrown,
- most babylike,
- un grown,
- more babylike,
- in-experienced,
- most unfledged,
- un fledged,
- most ungrown,
- in experienced,
- un-grown.
- 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.
- 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.
- closefisted,
- ironfisted,
- thrifty,
- frugal,
- cheeseparing,
- austere,
- abstemious,
- Pinchpenny,
- parsimonious,
- pennywise,
- ascetic,
- Ungiving,
- narrow-fisted,
- tight,
- spartan,
- penny-pinching,
- Hard-fisted,
- miserly.
- 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.
- zipper,
- diminished,
- of no consequence,
- meretricious,
- of no consequence/of little consequence,
- Podunk.
- 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.
n.
• fiddling (noun) • footling (noun) • inferior (noun) • junior-grade (noun) • lilliputian (noun) • lower (noun) • lower-ranking (noun) • lowly (noun) • narrow (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• mean (verb) • Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
• Mickey Mouse-
•
- costive,
- close-fisted,
- Pinching.
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•
- junior,
- inconsiderable,
- nugatory,
- penurious,
- shallow,
- tightfisted,
- lesser,
- minor league,
- trifling,
- poor.
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•
- under.
-
•
- close.
- 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.
How to use "Petty" in context?
What does the word "petty" mean?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "petty" is "of, pertaining to, or characteristic of minor considerations or matters." Essentially, petty things are not as important as more important things and can be discarded without much thought.
This idea is often illustrated with the term "petty jealousy." Jealousy is typically an intense and often concerning emotion, but for some people, petty jealousy is all that is necessary to flare up.
Paraphrases for Petty:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
trivial.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
petty-minded.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
derisory, inconsiderable, insignificant, meaningless, measly, miniature, miserable, miserly, modest, narrow, negligible, paltry, pathetic, shabby, slight, small-time, tiny, unimportant, out-of-pocket, small-sized.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
narrow-minded, small-minded, small-scale.
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Adjective
Homophones for Petty:
- Petit, petie, Pettey, pettie, petti.
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