petty

Meanings

Plural: petties

Noun

• larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
• An outbuilding used as a lavatory; an outhouse, a privy.
• A class or school for young schoolboys.
• A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.

Adjective Satellite

• inferior in rank or status
  • "petty officialdom"
• (informal) small and of little importance
  • "limited to petty enterprises"
• contemptibly narrow in outlook
  • "petty little comments"

Adj

• Having little or no importance.
• Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
• Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.
• Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
• Little or small in size.
• Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.

Synonyms

ABC, avengeful, backhouse, backside, base, bog, boggard, boghouse, carsey, chamber foreign, common house, commons, compact, contemptible, Cousin John, craphouse, danna, draught, draught-house, dunnekin, dunny, earth closet, fiddling, foolish, footling, for the birds, foreign, frivolous, fun size, fun-sized, futile, gang, gingerbread office, gong, gonghouse, grudgeful, grudging, House of Commons, house of ease, house of easement, house of office, ickle, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, issue, jacques, jakes, jakeshouse, johnny house, junior-grade, karzy, khazi, kocay, like a fart in a windstorm, lilliputian, lit'l, little, little house, long drop, longhouse, low, lower-ranking, lowly, meager, mean, mini, minor, modest, necessary, necessary house, necessary place, necessary vault, neddy, negligible, netty, niggling, nondescript, nothingburger, outhouse, paltry, passage house, petit larceny, petty, petty form, petty larceny, petty school, petty-house, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piddly, piffling, pint-sized, pissant, pitiful, pluckcrow, pocket-size, pointless, privy, privy house, purging place, retreat, revengeful, secondary, shield, shithouse, shouse, siege, siegehouse, silly, simple, slight, slim, small, small-minded, small-scale, subaltern, thunderbox, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, undersized, unimportant, unweighty, usual offices, vain, vault, vengeable, vengeful, vengesome, vindical, vindictive, wardrobe, wee, withdraught, worthless, wreakful, wretched, wurly

Antonyms

broad-minded, grand, grand larceny, high, ignorable, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, small, tiny, trivial, unimportant, unremarkable

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