Synonyms for Trifling:

• adj.

  •few (adjective)
  • scarcely any,
  • skimpy,
  • occasional,
  • less,
  • minute,
  • Unfrequent,
  • scattering,
  • widely spaced,
  • infrequent,
  • sparse,
  • insufficient,
  • scant,
  • straggling,
  • semioccasional,
  • scattered,
  • scanty,
  • imperceptible,
  • few,
  • slim,
  • sporadic,
  • not many,
  • thin,
  • meager,
  • exiguous,
  • short,
  • uncommon,
  • lean,
  • not too many,
  • seldom,
  • rare,
  • middling,
  • slender,
  • minority,
  • few and far between,
  • scarce,
  • stingy,
  • some.
  •fine (adjective)
  • subtle,
  • enigmatic,
  • precise,
  • cryptic,
  • fastidious,
  • clear,
  • obscure,
  • distinct,
  • keen,
  • sterling,
  • abstruse,
  • unadulterated,
  • pure,
  • quick,
  • tasteful,
  • sensitive,
  • hairsplitting,
  • esoteric,
  • critical,
  • recondite,
  • intelligent,
  • refined,
  • nice,
  • strict,
  • acute,
  • delicate,
  • tenuous,
  • sharp.
  •flimsy (adjective)
  • assailable,
  • baseless,
  • lame,
  • inept,
  • inadequate,
  • weakly,
  • unreasonable,
  • superficial,
  • unbelievable,
  • groundless,
  • wishful,
  • incredible,
  • weak,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • puerile,
  • inconceivable,
  • feeble,
  • contemptible,
  • illogical,
  • false,
  • unsubstantial,
  • fallacious,
  • transparent,
  • improbable.
  •futile (adjective)
  • unreal,
  • ineffective,
  • unsuccessful,
  • forlorn,
  • sterile,
  • impractical,
  • barren,
  • unprofitable,
  • abortive,
  • useless,
  • otiose,
  • unproductive,
  • exhausted,
  • ineffectual,
  • unneeded,
  • delusive,
  • profitless,
  • impracticable,
  • fruitless,
  • bootless.
  •immaterial (adjective)
  • no never mind,
  • matter of indifference,
  • of no account,
  • no big deal,
  • of no importance,
  • inapposite,
  • Irrelative,
  • of no consequence.
  •inane (adjective)
  • in nocuous,
  • in-nocuous,
  • un-intelligent,
  • wishy-washy,
  • un intelligent,
  • wishy washy,
  • wishywashy,
  • in sipid,
  • in-sipid.
  •inconsequent (adjective)
  • in consequent,
  • in-consequent.
  •inconsequential (adjective)
  • in-consequential,
  • two bit,
  • entry level,
  • in consequential.
  •inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
  • more entry-level,
  • runter,
  • more shoestring,
  • wimpiest,
  • most entry level,
  • more entry level,
  • runtest,
  • most shoestring,
  • twobit,
  • un-considered,
  • most entrylevel,
  • more entrylevel,
  • un considered,
  • entrylevel,
  • in-appreciable,
  • in appreciable,
  • most entry-level,
  • wimpier.
  •insignificant (adjective)
  • in significant,
  • more minim,
  • most minimal,
  • irrelevant,
  • most minim,
  • most purportless,
  • non essential,
  • in-significant,
  • more purportless.
  •lazy (adjective)
  • un-concerned,
  • laggard,
  • most unenergetic,
  • in-attentive,
  • slowmoving,
  • most unready,
  • more slowmoving,
  • unindustrious,
  • un industrious,
  • most dallying,
  • most slowmoving,
  • in attentive,
  • un-persevering,
  • more unenergetic,
  • un-energetic,
  • most slow moving,
  • un-ready,
  • somnolent,
  • neglectful,
  • most unpersevering,
  • snoozier,
  • most slow-moving,
  • snooziest,
  • un-industrious,
  • more procrastinating,
  • asleep the job,
  • unpersevering,
  • in different,
  • un ready,
  • un energetic,
  • un concerned,
  • more slow-moving,
  • more laggard,
  • un persevering,
  • out it,
  • slow moving,
  • most laggard,
  • most procrastinating,
  • asleep job,
  • more dallying,
  • in-different,
  • more unindustrious,
  • more unready,
  • more slow moving,
  • most unindustrious,
  • more unpersevering.
  •light (adjective)
  • wee,
  • unheavy,
  • chirpiest,
  • tissuelike,
  • weightless,
  • fragmentary,
  • Floatable,
  • sunny-side up,
  • Imponderous,
  • frothy,
  • up-beat,
  • not rich,
  • sylphlike,
  • chirpier,
  • hardly enough,
  • lightest,
  • light-footed,
  • lithe,
  • not much,
  • perky,
  • hardly any,
  • Gossamery,
  • featherweight,
  • chirpy,
  • sunny side up.
  •light-headed (adjective)
  • vertiginous,
  • swimmy.
  •lightheaded (adjective)
  • birdbrained,
  • bird brained.
  •lightweight (adjective)
  • in competent,
  • in-competent.
  •lilliputian (adjective)
  • pygmier,
  • pygmy,
  • pygmiest.
  •little (adjective)
  • least,
  • inconsequent.
  •low (adjective)
  • cut-rate,
  • second rate,
  • second-rate,
  • marked down,
  • uncostly,
  • secondrate,
  • lower,
  • cut rate.
  •meaningless (adjective)
  • meaningless,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • Unpurposed,
  • doesn't cut it,
  • unmeaning,
  • doublespeak.
  •measly (adjective)
  • un generous,
  • un-generous.
  •minor (adjective)
  • secondstring,
  • more small fry,
  • smallfry,
  • de-pendent,
  • more smallfry,
  • below mark,
  • de pendent,
  • most small fry,
  • more younger,
  • most secondstring,
  • more second-string,
  • most junior,
  • junior,
  • more secondstring,
  • most smallfry,
  • most second-string,
  • most younger,
  • more accessory,
  • sub ordinate,
  • most small-fry,
  • most second string,
  • bushleague,
  • more second string,
  • sub-ordinate,
  • more small-fry,
  • most accessory.
  •minor-league (adjective)
  • sub-altern,
  • minor-league,
  • most subaltern,
  • sub altern,
  • minorleague,
  • most under,
  • more subaltern.
  •moderate (adjective)
  • fairish.
  •negligible (adjective)
  • out side,
  • re-mote.
  •no-account (adjective)
  • Drossy.
  •no-good (adjective)
  • no good,
  • nogood.
  •nominal (adjective)
  • more token,
  • most token,
  • low priced,
  • lowpriced.
  •nonchalant (adjective)
  • un-excited,
  • un-perturbed,
  • un emotional,
  • un-ruffled,
  • un impressible,
  • most unimpressible,
  • un-impressible,
  • un-emotional,
  • in-curious,
  • effortless,
  • dis interested,
  • un perturbed,
  • insouciant,
  • more unimpressible,
  • most disimpassioned,
  • dis passionate,
  • dis-impassioned,
  • in curious,
  • un-caring,
  • un troubled,
  • more unexcited,
  • un excited,
  • un-troubled,
  • un feeling,
  • un ruffled,
  • un flappable,
  • more disimpassioned,
  • dis-passionate,
  • dis impassioned,
  • most unexcited,
  • dis-interested,
  • un caring.
  •nugatory (adjective)
  • in valid,
  • in-valid.
  •paltry (adjective)
  • un consequential,
  • more derisory,
  • more low-down,
  • more lowdown,
  • most unconsequential,
  • most lowdown,
  • un-consequential,
  • most low-down,
  • more unconsequential,
  • most derisory,
  • low down,
  • most low down,
  • more low down.
  •petty (adjective)
  • scratchest,
  • more peanut,
  • pennyante,
  • most pennyante,
  • more nickel-and-dime,
  • narrowminded,
  • most penny-ante,
  • most penny ante,
  • smallminded,
  • most pettifogging,
  • more pennyante,
  • most nickel-and-dime,
  • more nickel and dime,
  • more penny-ante,
  • nickel and dime,
  • more penny ante,
  • most nickel and dime,
  • most peanut,
  • small minded,
  • more pettifogging,
  • narrow minded.
  •piddling (adjective)
  • piddling.
  •pintsized (adjective)
  • pint sized.
  •poor (adjective)
  • niggardly,
  • SUBPAR.,
  • subnormal,
  • poorer.
  •puny (adjective)
  • un-sounder,
  • half pint,
  • under sized,
  • more zero,
  • zilchest,
  • more pint-sized,
  • more halfpint,
  • most zero,
  • in-firmer,
  • most peewee,
  • more pint sized,
  • un-sound,
  • un sound,
  • un-developed,
  • more half-pint,
  • in firmer,
  • in firmest,
  • most halfpint,
  • un-soundest,
  • zilcher,
  • more peewee,
  • shrimpest,
  • in-firmest,
  • most pint sized,
  • most pint-sized,
  • halfpint,
  • most half pint,
  • un sounder,
  • most half-pint,
  • more half pint.
  •shallow (adjective)
  • shoaler,
  • uncritical,
  • shallower,
  • emptyheaded,
  • shelfer.
  •slight (adjective)
  • un essential,
  • un-essential.
  •small (adjective)
  • deficient,
  • dwarfish,
  • smallish,
  • runty,
  • modest,
  • baby,
  • petite,
  • spare,
  • scrawny,
  • bantam,
  • Toyer,
  • ungenerous,
  • miserly,
  • teeny-weeny,
  • toy,
  • diminutive,
  • minimal,
  • beggarly,
  • sparing,
  • compact,
  • teeny,
  • pocket,
  • miniature,
  • microscopic,
  • bitty.
  •sorry (adjective)
  • Despisable,
  • scummier,
  • scummy,
  • scurvy.
  •teensy-weensy (adjective)
  • teensy weensy,
  • teensyweensy.
  •teeny-weeny (adjective)
  • teeny weeny,
  • teenyweeny.
  •tiny (adjective)
  • most pocket size,
  • itsybitsy,
  • most itsybitsy,
  • itsy bitsy,
  • most itty-bitty,
  • more pocketsize,
  • most itty bitty,
  • more itty bitty,
  • more pocket-size,
  • more itty-bitty,
  • most pee wee,
  • itty bitty,
  • more pocket size,
  • most ittybitty,
  • more pee-wee,
  • pee wee,
  • more minuscular,
  • most itsy-bitsy,
  • most pocket-size,
  • more itsybitsy,
  • more itsy-bitsy,
  • more itsy bitsy,
  • most minikin,
  • most pocketsize,
  • ittybitty,
  • most itsy bitsy,
  • more pee wee,
  • bitsier,
  • more ittybitty,
  • pocket size,
  • most minuscular,
  • most pee-wee,
  • more minikin,
  • bitsiest.
  •trifling (adjective)
  • frivolous,
  • banal,
  • no big thing,
  • insipid,
  • forget it,
  • trivial.
  •unavailing (adjective)
  • un availing,
  • un-availing.
  •unimportant (adjective)
  • low-ranking,
  • of no consequence/of little consequence,
  • trite,
  • Flyspeck,
  • fiddling,
  • zipper,
  • one-horse.
  •unimposing (adjective)
  • most unimpressive,
  • more unimpressive,
  • un-impressive,
  • un imposing,
  • un-imposing,
  • un impressive.
  •vain (adjective)
  • no-win,
  • going nowhere,
  • not a prayer,
  • Shucker,
  • in vicious circle,
  • unnotable.
  •weightless (adjective)
  • light as feather.
  •worthless (adjective)
  • un-usable,
  • in-utile,
  • in utile,
  • un usable,
  • wastest,
  • more counterproductive,
  • counter productive,
  • most counterproductive.

• n.

  •dalliance (noun)
  • Puttering,
  • playing,
  • Delaying,
  • Procrastinating,
  • Dabbling,
  • loafing,
  • Frittering,
  • dilly-dallying,
  • poking,
  • delay,
  • toying.
  •dawdling (noun)
  • dawdling.
  •flirtation (noun)
  • tease,
  • courting,
  • coquetry,
  • romance,
  • Cruising,
  • intrigue,
  • amour,
  • pickup.
  •flirting (noun)
  • amorou,
  • wooings,
  • philanderings.
  •fooling (noun)
  • Kidding,
  • horseplay,
  • High Jinks,
  • Bluffing,
  • joshing,
  • jesting,
  • farce,
  • pretense.
  •frivolity (noun)
  • volatility,
  • frippery,
  • lightness,
  • giddiness,
  • game,
  • Dallying,
  • folly,
  • lightheartedness,
  • gaiety,
  • flippancy,
  • whimsy,
  • fun,
  • Coquetting,
  • flightiness,
  • triviality.
  •idleness (noun)
  • un-employments,
  • time on ones hand,
  • time ones hand,
  • time on one's hand,
  • time wastings,
  • otiosities,
  • goofoff times,
  • timewastings,
  • time one's hand,
  • joblessnesses,
  • goof off times,
  • un employments,
  • un-employment,
  • time one hand,
  • time one's hands,
  • unemployments,
  • time on ones hands,
  • time on one hands,
  • vegetatings,
  • time on hand,
  • own sweet times,
  • time wasting,
  • timewasting,
  • time on one hand,
  • un employment,
  • goof-off times,
  • time ones hands,
  • time-wastings,
  • time kill,
  • goof off time,
  • time one hands,
  • dawdlings,
  • time hands,
  • dronings,
  • time burn,
  • goofoff time,
  • time on hands,
  • lazings,
  • potterings,
  • time hand.
  •inaction (noun)
  • inertness,
  • inactivity,
  • inoperativeness.
  •inoperativeness (noun)
  • in-operativeness,
  • in-operativenesses,
  • in operativeness,
  • in operativenesses.
  •levity (noun)
  • high spirits,
  • repartee,
  • facetiousness,
  • fickleness.
  •sport (noun)
  • Mummeries,
  • jollifications,
  • jollification,
  • mummery.

• v.

  •trifle (verb)
  • futz around,
  • putter,
  • lead on,
  • fidget,
  • horse around,
  • play with,
  • palter,
  • indulge in,
  • dawdle,
  • wanton,
  • dilly-dally,
  • lollygag,
  • waste time,
  • play games with,
  • monkey,
  • lounge,
  • dally,
  • dabble,
  • twiddle,
  • waste,
  • monkey with,
  • fool with,
  • fool,
  • coquet,
  • potter,
  • mess with,
  • doodle,
  • be insincere,
  • philander,
  • loiter,
  • fool around,
  • string along,
  • fritter,
  • amuse oneself,
  • misuse,
  • wink at,
  • use up.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flimflam.
  •
  • shallow,
  • inconsiderable,
  • small-minded.
  •jocular
  • facetious.
  •Other relevant words:
  • inconsistency,
  • miserable,
  • representing,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • carelessness,
  • loaded,
  • brimful,
  • markedly,
  • first,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • shuffling,
  • minutely,
  • trifling matter,
  • unessential,
  • farcical,
  • particularly,
  • apart,
  • undirected,
  • insignificance,
  • indifferent,
  • Recreating,
  • Laches,
  • skin-deep,
  • inconstant,
  • doubtful,
  • Luxuriating,
  • valueless,
  • pussyfooting,
  • kidding around,
  • pocket-sized,
  • Wantoning,
  • pitiful,
  • crowded,
  • pigmy,
  • lilliputian,
  • eccentricity,
  • monkeying,
  • inefficacious,
  • nebulous,
  • detention,
  • fidgeting,
  • suffer,
  • choplogic,
  • cipher,
  • riddle,
  • urinating,
  • Noncompletion,
  • asunder,
  • snug,
  • fatuous,
  • improvidence,
  • coquette,
  • acrostic,
  • insensibility,
  • flirt,
  • recklessness,
  • inefficient,
  • precisely,
  • vamp,
  • uncluttered,
  • minx,
  • default,
  • caviling,
  • windy,
  • small-scale,
  • classy,
  • impotent,
  • ambiguity,
  • imprudence,
  • potty,
  • evasive,
  • humble,
  • ancillary,
  • parsimonious,
  • omission,
  • childish,
  • peculiarly,
  • Encountering,
  • disorder,
  • pathetic,
  • specifically,
  • purposeless,
  • pissing,
  • of no effect,
  • limited,
  • airy,
  • sketchy,
  • hawking,
  • guide,
  • uncharitable,
  • conceive,
  • expressly,
  • goofing off,
  • secondary,
  • selfish,
  • dainty,
  • inessential,
  • tight,
  • independently,
  • shipshape,
  • holdup,
  • bare,
  • moderately,
  • Tinkering,
  • nothing particular,
  • oversight,
  • Picayunish,
  • hazy,
  • curiously,
  • lingering,
  • micro,
  • Equivocatory,
  • smart,
  • twopenny,
  • absurdity,
  • smattering,
  • individually,
  • Dolce Far Niente,
  • consume,
  • piffling,
  • perceptible,
  • trim,
  • neat,
  • close,
  • quibbling,
  • vague,
  • dirt,
  • jeu de mots,
  • Tarrying,
  • convey,
  • silly,
  • cheap,
  • messing around,
  • paltering,
  • scrimpy,
  • jejune,
  • base,
  • catchpenny,
  • slightly,
  • nonentity,
  • peanut,
  • assume,
  • Crammed,
  • rashness,
  • playacting,
  • thinly,
  • close-fisted,
  • calculate,
  • quibble,
  • snappy,
  • philandering,
  • asinine,
  • spend,
  • lesser,
  • pitiable,
  • null,
  • Fingle-fangle,
  • unfruitful,
  • ineptitude,
  • infinitesimal,
  • jammed,
  • unimpressive,
  • playing around,
  • supineness,
  • think,
  • slovenliness,
  • two-bit,
  • behave,
  • reduced,
  • unconsidered,
  • dinky,
  • lightly,
  • foolish,
  • undergo,
  • inconsequence,
  • diminished,
  • Wagering,
  • Fribbling,
  • detailing,
  • separately,
  • bear,
  • grudging,
  • child's play,
  • analyze,
  • cogitate,
  • frail,
  • unemployed,
  • error,
  • diddling,
  • bickering,
  • but for,
  • lead,
  • subordinate,
  • Pimping,
  • double acrostic,
  • stillborn,
  • break down,
  • captious,
  • brimming,
  • no great shakes,
  • undistinguished,
  • evanescent,
  • twopenny-halfpenny,
  • finical,
  • lowercase,
  • insubstantial,
  • elfin,
  • chipper,
  • chicken,
  • dillydallying,
  • tracing,
  • somewhat,
  • contemplate,
  • neglect,
  • slimly,
  • inappreciable,
  • trig,
  • mini,
  • addle,
  • well-groomed,
  • chaffy,
  • negligence,
  • conceit,
  • peeing,
  • lounging,
  • reckon,
  • orderly,
  • Puddling,
  • tidy,
  • chic,
  • small beer,
  • fine,
  • meagre,
  • Depthless,
  • trifle,
  • lolling,
  • circumstantially,
  • regard,
  • unpretentious,
  • small-time,
  • sporting,
  • indolent,
  • nit-picking,
  • token,
  • irrationality,
  • extravagance,
  • mean,
  • shaky,
  • wretched,
  • spick-and-span,
  • acting,
  • fussy,
  • ridiculous,
  • punning,
  • cursory,
  • bush-league,
  • chitter-chatter,
  • unimportance,
  • squandering,
  • nonchalance,
  • dashing,
  • inferior,
  • stinting,
  • incidental,
  • footling,
  • break to pieces,
  • piddly,
  • jerking off,
  • conundrum,
  • trace,
  • vacuous,
  • squander,
  • Mashing,
  • tight-fisted,
  • monkeying around,
  • Nugacity,
  • pointless,
  • consider,
  • midget,
  • of easy virtue,
  • inexactness,
  • peddling,
  • mingy,
  • biting,
  • Loitering,
  • roleplaying,
  • fooling around,
  • peripheral,
  • dubious,
  • spotting,
  • of no moment,
  • sophistry,
  • minuscule,
  • commonplace,
  • inattention,
  • rather,
  • modish,
  • spieling,
  • empty,
  • play upon words,
  • swank,
  • Discretely,
  • vapid,
  • hollow,
  • word-play,
  • reflect,
  • mickey mouse,
  • butterflying,
  • if not,
  • fashionable,
  • pun,
  • marginal,
  • expend,
  • namby-pamby,
  • Lazing,
  • hedging,
  • mere,
  • severally,
  • pettiness,
  • senseless,
  • minor league,
  • slenderly,
  • chitchat,
  • worthlessness,
  • packed,
  • nothing,
  • powerless,
  • Finikin,
  • anagram,
  • venial,
  • wasting time,
  • idle.

Paraphrases for Trifling:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    minor, unimportant, paltry, meaningless, minimal, marginal.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    insignificant, trivial, negligible, inconsequential, inconsiderable, slight, insubstantial, small.

Antonyms for Trifling:

• adj.

  • few
    many, much.
  • fine
    unrefined, awkward, crude, uncouth, undiscriminating.
  • flimsy
    strong, convincing, plausible, reasonable, serious.
  • futile
    productive, profitable, fruitful, hopeful.
  • trifling
    significant, important, useful.
  • Other antonyms:
    renowned, impressive, employed, diligent, eminent, prominent, fundamental, worthwhile, basic, noteworthy, busy, exceptional, outstanding, worthy, fateful, famous, appreciable, all-important, key, notorious, remarkable, pivotal, discernible, active, illustrious, prestigious, decisive, working, great, essential, distinctive, industrious, distinguished, valuable, fatal, occupied, measurable.

• n.

  • dalliance
    push, rush, hastening, hurrying.
  • flirtation
    faithfulness.
  • fooling
    seriousness.
  • frivolity
    sensibility, wiseness.