frivolous
Meanings
Adjective
- not serious in content or attitude or behavior
- "a frivolous novel"
- "a frivolous remark"
- "a frivolous young woman"
Adj
- Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a whim or caprice.
- Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; trivial.
- Having no reasonable prospect of success because its claim is without merit, lacking a supporting legal or factual basis, while the filing party is, or should be, aware of this.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin frīvolus (“silly, empty, trifling, frivolous, worthless”), with the ending modified to match -ous.
Synonyms
base, contemptible, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, futile, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, minor, negligible, nondescript, nothingburger, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pissant, pitiful, pointless, silly, simple, slight, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
frivolous is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordfrivolous is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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