What is another word for trifling?
1162 synonyms found
What is a trifling matter?
Is something trifling important or not?
Pronunciation:
[ tɹˈa͡ɪflɪŋ], [ tɹˈaɪflɪŋ], [ t_ɹ_ˈaɪ_f_l_ɪ_ŋ]
Trifling is often used to describe something that is unimportant or insignificant. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to convey a similar meaning. For example, "petty" is often used to describe something that is small and unimportant, while "frivolous" can suggest that something lacks substance or depth. "Inconsequential" emphasizes the lack of significance, while "trivial" is similar to trifling in that it suggests that something is unimportant or insignificant. Other potential synonyms for trifling include "minor," "insignificant," "negligible," and "small." Whatever the synonym used, it is clear that something described as trifling is not worthy of significant attention or consideration.
Semantically related words: viper, snake, venomous, omen, omen of gloom, sinuous
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Similar words for trifling:
- few (adjective)
- immaterial (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- light-headed (adjective)
- lightheaded (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- meaningless (adjective)
- moderate (adjective)
- no-account (adjective)
- no-good (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- sorry (adjective)
- unimportant (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- fine (adjective)
- flimsy (adjective)
- futile (adjective)
- inane (adjective)
- inconsequent (adjective)
- inconsequential (adjective)
- inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
- insignificant (adjective)
- lazy (adjective)
- lightweight (adjective)
- lilliputian (adjective)
- measly (adjective)
- minor (adjective)
- minor-league (adjective)
- negligible (adjective)
- nominal (adjective)
- nonchalant (adjective)
- nugatory (adjective)
- paltry (adjective)
- petty (adjective)
- pintsized (adjective)
- puny (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- teensy-weensy (adjective)
- teeny-weeny (adjective)
- tiny (adjective)
- trifling (adjective)
- unavailing (adjective)
- unimposing (adjective)
- weightless (adjective)
- worthless (adjective)
- dalliance (noun)
- flirtation (noun)
- flirting (noun)
- fooling (noun)
- frivolity (noun)
- idleness (noun)
- inaction (noun)
- inoperativeness (noun)
- levity (noun)
- sport (noun)
- flightiness
- insignificant
- jocular
- joking
- noun
- trifle
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
Synonyms for Trifling:
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adj.
• few- Unfrequent ,
- few and far between ,
- not too many ,
- scarcely any ,
- semioccasional ,
- widely spaced ,
- infrequent ,
- lean ,
- less ,
- middling ,
- minority ,
- not many ,
- occasional ,
- rare ,
- scarce ,
- scattered ,
- scattering ,
- seldom ,
- some ,
- sporadic ,
- straggling ,
- thin ,
- uncommon .
- Floatable ,
- Gossamery ,
- Imponderous ,
- chirpier ,
- chirpiest ,
- chirpy ,
- featherweight ,
- hardly any ,
- hardly enough ,
- light-footed ,
- not much ,
- not rich ,
- sunny side up ,
- sunny-side up ,
- sylphlike ,
- tissuelike ,
- up-beat ,
- fragmentary ,
- lightest ,
- lithe ,
- perky ,
- unheavy .
- Toyer ,
- baby ,
- bantam ,
- beggarly ,
- bitty ,
- compact ,
- deficient ,
- delicate ,
- diminutive ,
- dwarfish ,
- meager ,
- microscopic ,
- miniature ,
- minimal ,
- minute ,
- miserly ,
- modest ,
- petite ,
- piddling ,
- runty ,
- scant ,
- scanty ,
- scrawny ,
- short ,
- slim ,
- smallish ,
- spare ,
- sparing ,
- stingy ,
- teeny ,
- teeny-weeny ,
- ungenerous ,
- wee .
- Flyspeck ,
- banal ,
- fiddling ,
- frivolous ,
- insipid ,
- irrelevant ,
- of no consequence/of little consequence ,
- one-horse ,
- trite ,
- trivial ,
- low-ranking ,
- zipper .
- abstruse ,
- acute ,
- critical ,
- cryptic ,
- distinct ,
- enigmatic ,
- esoteric ,
- fastidious ,
- intelligent ,
- keen ,
- nice ,
- precise ,
- pure ,
- quick ,
- recondite ,
- refined ,
- sensitive ,
- sterling ,
- strict ,
- subtle ,
- tasteful ,
- unadulterated .
- assailable ,
- fallacious ,
- false ,
- groundless ,
- illogical ,
- improbable ,
- inconceivable ,
- incredible ,
- inept ,
- lame ,
- transparent ,
- unbelievable ,
- unreasonable ,
- weakly ,
- wishful .
- barren ,
- delusive ,
- exhausted ,
- forlorn ,
- impracticable ,
- impractical ,
- profitless ,
- sterile ,
- unneeded ,
- unsuccessful .
- in nocuous ,
- in sipid ,
- in-nocuous ,
- in-sipid ,
- un intelligent ,
- un-intelligent ,
- wishy washy ,
- wishywashy .
- entrylevel ,
- in appreciable ,
- in-appreciable ,
- more entry level ,
- more entry-level ,
- more entrylevel ,
- more shoestring ,
- most entry level ,
- most entry-level ,
- most entrylevel ,
- most shoestring ,
- runter ,
- runtest ,
- twobit ,
- un considered ,
- un-considered ,
- wimpier ,
- wimpiest .
- in significant ,
- in-significant ,
- more minim ,
- more purportless ,
- most minim ,
- most minimal ,
- most purportless ,
- non essential .
- asleep job ,
- asleep the job ,
- in attentive ,
- in different ,
- in-attentive ,
- in-different ,
- laggard ,
- more dallying ,
- more laggard ,
- more procrastinating ,
- more slow moving ,
- more slow-moving ,
- more slowmoving ,
- more unenergetic ,
- more unindustrious ,
- more unpersevering ,
- more unready ,
- most dallying ,
- most laggard ,
- most procrastinating ,
- most slow moving ,
- most slow-moving ,
- most slowmoving ,
- most unenergetic ,
- most unindustrious ,
- most unpersevering ,
- most unready ,
- neglectful ,
- out it ,
- slow moving ,
- slowmoving ,
- snoozier ,
- snooziest ,
- somnolent ,
- un concerned ,
- un energetic ,
- un industrious ,
- un persevering ,
- un ready ,
- un-concerned ,
- un-energetic ,
- un-industrious ,
- un-persevering ,
- un-ready ,
- unindustrious ,
- unpersevering .
- below mark ,
- bushleague ,
- de pendent ,
- de-pendent ,
- junior ,
- more accessory ,
- more second string ,
- more second-string ,
- more secondstring ,
- more small fry ,
- more small-fry ,
- more smallfry ,
- more younger ,
- most accessory ,
- most junior ,
- most second string ,
- most second-string ,
- most secondstring ,
- most small fry ,
- most small-fry ,
- most smallfry ,
- most younger ,
- secondstring ,
- smallfry ,
- sub ordinate ,
- sub-ordinate .
- dis impassioned ,
- dis interested ,
- dis passionate ,
- dis-impassioned ,
- dis-interested ,
- dis-passionate ,
- effortless ,
- in curious ,
- in-curious ,
- insouciant ,
- more disimpassioned ,
- more unexcited ,
- more unimpressible ,
- most disimpassioned ,
- most unexcited ,
- most unimpressible ,
- un caring ,
- un emotional ,
- un excited ,
- un feeling ,
- un flappable ,
- un impressible ,
- un perturbed ,
- un ruffled ,
- un troubled ,
- un-caring ,
- un-emotional ,
- un-excited ,
- un-impressible ,
- un-perturbed ,
- un-ruffled ,
- un-troubled .
- low down ,
- more derisory ,
- more low down ,
- more low-down ,
- more lowdown ,
- more unconsequential ,
- most derisory ,
- most low down ,
- most low-down ,
- most lowdown ,
- most unconsequential ,
- un consequential ,
- un-consequential .
- more nickel and dime ,
- more nickel-and-dime ,
- more peanut ,
- more penny ante ,
- more penny-ante ,
- more pennyante ,
- more pettifogging ,
- most nickel and dime ,
- most nickel-and-dime ,
- most peanut ,
- most penny ante ,
- most penny-ante ,
- most pennyante ,
- most pettifogging ,
- narrow minded ,
- narrowminded ,
- nickel and dime ,
- pennyante ,
- scratchest ,
- small minded ,
- smallminded .
- half pint ,
- halfpint ,
- in firmer ,
- in firmest ,
- in-firmer ,
- in-firmest ,
- more half pint ,
- more half-pint ,
- more halfpint ,
- more peewee ,
- more pint sized ,
- more pint-sized ,
- more zero ,
- most half pint ,
- most half-pint ,
- most halfpint ,
- most peewee ,
- most pint sized ,
- most pint-sized ,
- most zero ,
- shrimpest ,
- un sound ,
- un sounder ,
- un-developed ,
- un-sound ,
- un-sounder ,
- un-soundest ,
- under sized ,
- zilcher ,
- zilchest .
- bitsier ,
- bitsiest ,
- itsy bitsy ,
- itsybitsy ,
- itty bitty ,
- ittybitty ,
- more itsy bitsy ,
- more itsy-bitsy ,
- more itsybitsy ,
- more itty bitty ,
- more itty-bitty ,
- more ittybitty ,
- more minikin ,
- more minuscular ,
- more pee wee ,
- more pee-wee ,
- more pocket size ,
- more pocket-size ,
- more pocketsize ,
- most itsy bitsy ,
- most itsy-bitsy ,
- most itsybitsy ,
- most itty bitty ,
- most itty-bitty ,
- most ittybitty ,
- most minikin ,
- most minuscular ,
- most pee wee ,
- most pee-wee ,
- most pocket size ,
- most pocket-size ,
- most pocketsize ,
- pee wee ,
- pocket size .
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n.
• dalliance • flirtation • flirting • fooling • frivolity- flightiness ,
- flippancy ,
- frippery ,
- fun ,
- gaiety ,
- game ,
- lightheartedness ,
- lightness ,
- triviality ,
- volatility ,
- whimsy .
- dawdlings ,
- dronings ,
- goof off time ,
- goof off times ,
- goof-off times ,
- goofoff time ,
- goofoff times ,
- joblessnesses ,
- lazings ,
- otiosities ,
- own sweet times ,
- potterings ,
- time burn ,
- time hand ,
- time hands ,
- time kill ,
- time on hand ,
- time on hands ,
- time on one hand ,
- time on one hands ,
- time on one's hand ,
- time on ones hand ,
- time on ones hands ,
- time one hand ,
- time one hands ,
- time one's hand ,
- time one's hands ,
- time ones hand ,
- time ones hands ,
- time wasting ,
- time wastings ,
- time-wastings ,
- timewasting ,
- timewastings ,
- un employment ,
- un employments ,
- un-employment ,
- un-employments ,
- unemployments ,
- vegetatings .
Other synonyms:
- flimsy ,
- inconsiderable ,
- niggling ,
- petty ,
- poor ,
- shallow ,
- small-minded ,
- sorry ,
- sport .
Other relevant words:
- Coquetting ,
- Crammed ,
- Dabbling ,
- Dallying ,
- Depthless ,
- Discretely ,
- Dolce Far Niente ,
- Encountering ,
- Equivocatory ,
- Fingle-fangle ,
- Finikin ,
- Fribble ,
- Fribbling ,
- Frittering ,
- Laches ,
- Lazing ,
- Loitering ,
- Luxuriating ,
- Mashing ,
- Non-essential ,
- Noncompletion ,
- Nugacity ,
- Picayunish ,
- Pimping ,
- Pottering ,
- Puddling ,
- Puttering ,
- Recreating ,
- Romancing ,
- Tarrying ,
- Tinkering ,
- Wagering ,
- Wantoning ,
- abortive ,
- absurdity ,
- acrostic ,
- acting ,
- addle ,
- airy ,
- ambiguity ,
- anagram ,
- analyze ,
- ancillary ,
- apart ,
- asinine ,
- assume ,
- asunder ,
- bare ,
- base ,
- baseless ,
- bear ,
- behave ,
- bickering ,
- biting ,
- bootless ,
- break down ,
- break to pieces ,
- brimful ,
- brimming ,
- bush-league ,
- but for ,
- butterflying ,
- calculate ,
- captious ,
- carelessness ,
- catchpenny ,
- caviling ,
- chaffy ,
- cheap ,
- chic ,
- chicken ,
- child's play ,
- childish ,
- chipper ,
- chitchat ,
- chitter-chatter ,
- choplogic ,
- cipher ,
- circumstantially ,
- classy ,
- clear ,
- close ,
- close-fisted ,
- cogitate ,
- commonplace ,
- conceit ,
- conceive ,
- consider ,
- consume ,
- contemplate ,
- contemptible ,
- conundrum ,
- convey ,
- coquetry ,
- coquette ,
- crowded ,
- curiously ,
- cursory ,
- dainty ,
- dalliance ,
- dashing ,
- dawdling ,
- default ,
- detailing ,
- detention ,
- diddling ,
- dillydallying ,
- diminished ,
- dinky ,
- dirt ,
- disorder ,
- double acrostic ,
- doubtful ,
- dubious ,
- eccentricity ,
- elfin ,
- empty ,
- error ,
- evanescent ,
- evasive ,
- exiguous ,
- expend ,
- expressly ,
- extravagance ,
- farcical ,
- fashionable ,
- fatuous ,
- feeble ,
- few ,
- fiddle-faddle ,
- fidgeting ,
- fine ,
- finical ,
- first ,
- flirt ,
- flirtation ,
- flirting ,
- folly ,
- fooling around ,
- foolish ,
- footling ,
- frail ,
- frothy ,
- fruitless ,
- fussy ,
- futile ,
- giddiness ,
- goofing off ,
- grudging ,
- guide ,
- hairsplitting ,
- hawking ,
- hazy ,
- hedging ,
- holdup ,
- hollow ,
- humble ,
- idle ,
- idling ,
- if not ,
- immaterial ,
- imperceptible ,
- impotent ,
- improvidence ,
- imprudence ,
- inactivity ,
- inadequate ,
- inane ,
- inappreciable ,
- inattention ,
- incidental ,
- inconsequence ,
- inconsequent ,
- inconsistency ,
- inconstant ,
- independently ,
- indifferent ,
- individually ,
- indolent ,
- ineffective ,
- ineffectual ,
- inefficacious ,
- inefficient ,
- ineptitude ,
- inessential ,
- inexactness ,
- inferior ,
- infinitesimal ,
- insensibility ,
- insignificance ,
- insubstantial ,
- insufficient ,
- irrationality ,
- itsy-bitsy ,
- jammed ,
- jejune ,
- jerking off ,
- jesting ,
- jeu de mots ,
- kidding around ,
- lazy ,
- lead ,
- least ,
- lesser ,
- levity ,
- light ,
- light-headed ,
- lightly ,
- lightweight ,
- lilliputian ,
- limited ,
- lingering ,
- loaded ,
- loafing ,
- lolling ,
- lounging ,
- low ,
- lower ,
- lowercase ,
- marginal ,
- markedly ,
- meagre ,
- mean ,
- meaningless ,
- mere ,
- messing around ,
- mickey mouse ,
- micro ,
- midget ,
- mingy ,
- mini ,
- minor league ,
- minuscule ,
- minutely ,
- minx ,
- miserable ,
- moderate ,
- moderately ,
- modish ,
- monkeying ,
- monkeying around ,
- namby-pamby ,
- neat ,
- nebulous ,
- neglect ,
- negligence ,
- nit-picking ,
- nitty-gritty ,
- no big deal ,
- no great shakes ,
- no-account ,
- no-good ,
- nonchalance ,
- nonchalant ,
- nonentity ,
- nothing ,
- nothing particular ,
- null ,
- obscure ,
- of easy virtue ,
- of no account ,
- of no effect ,
- of no importance ,
- of no moment ,
- omission ,
- orderly ,
- otiose ,
- oversight ,
- packed ,
- paltering ,
- parsimonious ,
- particularly ,
- pathetic ,
- peanut ,
- peculiarly ,
- peddling ,
- peeing ,
- penny ante ,
- perceptible ,
- peripheral ,
- pettiness ,
- philandering ,
- piddly ,
- piffling ,
- pigmy ,
- pint-sized ,
- pintsize ,
- pissing ,
- pitiable ,
- pitiful ,
- play upon words ,
- playacting ,
- playing ,
- playing around ,
- pocket-sized ,
- pointless ,
- potty ,
- powerless ,
- precisely ,
- puerile ,
- pun ,
- punning ,
- purposeless ,
- pussyfooting ,
- pygmy ,
- quibble ,
- quibbling ,
- rashness ,
- rather ,
- recklessness ,
- reckon ,
- reduced ,
- reflect ,
- regard ,
- representing ,
- riddle ,
- ridiculous ,
- roleplaying ,
- scrimpy ,
- secondary ,
- selfish ,
- senseless ,
- separately ,
- severally ,
- shaky ,
- sharp ,
- shipshape ,
- shuffling ,
- silly ,
- sketchy ,
- skimpy ,
- skin-deep ,
- slender ,
- slenderly ,
- slightly ,
- slimly ,
- slovenliness ,
- small beer ,
- small fry ,
- small-scale ,
- small-time ,
- smalltime ,
- smart ,
- smattering ,
- snappy ,
- snug ,
- somewhat ,
- sophistry ,
- sparse ,
- specifically ,
- spend ,
- spick-and-span ,
- spieling ,
- sporting ,
- spotting ,
- squander ,
- squandering ,
- stillborn ,
- stinting ,
- subordinate ,
- suffer ,
- superficial ,
- supineness ,
- swank ,
- teensy-weensy ,
- tenuous ,
- think ,
- thinly ,
- tidy ,
- tight ,
- tight-fisted ,
- to no avail ,
- token ,
- toying ,
- trace ,
- tracing ,
- trifle ,
- trifling matter ,
- trig ,
- trim ,
- two-bit ,
- twopenny ,
- twopenny-halfpenny ,
- unavailing ,
- uncharitable ,
- uncluttered ,
- unconsidered ,
- undergo ,
- undirected ,
- undistinguished ,
- unemployed ,
- unessential ,
- unfruitful ,
- unimportance ,
- unimposing ,
- unimpressive ,
- unpretentious ,
- unproductive ,
- unprofitable ,
- unreal ,
- unsatisfactory ,
- unsubstantial ,
- urinating ,
- useless ,
- vacuous ,
- vague ,
- vain ,
- valueless ,
- vamp ,
- vapid ,
- venial ,
- wasting time ,
- weak ,
- weightless ,
- well-groomed ,
- windy ,
- wishy-washy ,
- word-play ,
- worthlessness ,
- wretched .
- amuse oneself ,
- be insincere ,
- coquet ,
- dabble ,
- dally ,
- dawdle ,
- dilly-dally ,
- doodle ,
- fidget ,
- fool ,
- fool around ,
- fool with ,
- fritter ,
- futz around ,
- horse around ,
- indulge in ,
- lead on ,
- loiter ,
- lollygag ,
- lounge ,
- mess with ,
- misuse ,
- monkey ,
- monkey with ,
- palter ,
- philander ,
- play ,
- play games with ,
- play with ,
- potter ,
- putter ,
- string along ,
- toy ,
- twiddle ,
- use up ,
- wanton ,
- waste ,
- waste time ,
- wink at .
- Controvertible ,
- Disimpassioned ,
- Fine-spun ,
- Minikin ,
- Purportless ,
- Resultless ,
- Unconsequential ,
- Unimpressible ,
- asleep on job ,
- asleep on the job ,
- below the mark ,
- beside point ,
- big zero ,
- bitsy ,
- counter-productive ,
- counterproductive ,
- derisory ,
- entry-level ,
- hairline ,
- half-pint ,
- in firm ,
- in vain ,
- inconsequential ,
- insignificant ,
- itty-bitty ,
- light as a feather ,
- lightheaded ,
- little ,
- low-down ,
- lowdown ,
- measly ,
- minor ,
- minuscular ,
- negligible ,
- nickel-and-dime ,
- no avail ,
- no biggie ,
- no dice ,
- no effect ,
- no purpose ,
- not worth mentioning ,
- nugatory ,
- on a treadmill ,
- on treadmill ,
- out of it ,
- out the window ,
- paltry ,
- pee-wee ,
- peewee ,
- penny-ante ,
- picayune ,
- pintsized ,
- pocket-size ,
- pocketsize ,
- puny ,
- save one's breath ,
- scratcher ,
- second-string ,
- shoestring ,
- shrimp ,
- shrimper ,
- slight ,
- slow-moving ,
- small ,
- small time ,
- small-fry ,
- snoozy ,
- suboptimal ,
- teensy ,
- tiny ,
- to no effect ,
- to no purpose ,
- under-sized ,
- unenergetic ,
- unexcited ,
- ungrounded ,
- unimportant ,
- unpersuasive ,
- unpolluted ,
- unready ,
- weeny ,
- wimpy ,
- worthless ,
- yea big .
- Buffooneries ,
- Clownishness ,
- Frolicking ,
- Hibernations ,
- Ogling ,
- Otiosity ,
- Puerilities ,
- Skylarking ,
- beguilement ,
- beguilements ,
- buffoonery ,
- flummery ,
- frivoling ,
- frivolousness ,
- goof-off time ,
- hibernation ,
- jest ,
- joblessness ,
- leisure ,
- making light ,
- mockery ,
- nonsense ,
- oglings ,
- own sweet time ,
- playings ,
- pokings ,
- procrastination ,
- procrastinations ,
- puerility ,
- roughhouse ,
- roughhousing ,
- rowdiness ,
- shallowness ,
- spoofing ,
- superficialities ,
- superficiality ,
- teasing ,
- time on one's hands ,
- time to burn ,
- time to kill ,
- time-wasting ,
- trifling ,
- unemployment ,
- whimsicalities ,
- whimsicality .
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How to use "Trifling" in context?
If you are like most people, you would classify "trifling" as something that doesn't matter and isn't worth your time. But, if you look at it from a different perspective, trifling can actually be quite important. Take for example the little things that we do every day that help us feel better. Whether it's taking a few minutes to apologize to someone you've wronged or writing a thank you note, these activities can make us feel good and improve our relationships. And, unlike more important things, trifling can be done in a hurry and without much thought.
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Adjective
marginal, meaningless, minimal, minor, paltry, unimportant.
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inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, insubstantial, negligible, slight, small, trivial.
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