picayune

Meanings

Plural: picayunes

Adjective Satellite

• (informal) small and of little importance
  • "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

Noun

• A small coin of the value of six-and-a-quarter cents; a Spanish coin with a value of half a real; a fippenny bit.
• A coin worth five cents (a nickel) or some other low value.
• A person regarded as unworthy of respect or useless; also, something of very little value; a trifle.
• An argument, fact, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue or fails to make any difference.

Adj

• Of little consequence; small and of little importance; petty, trivial.
• Childishly spiteful; tending to go on about unimportant things; small-minded.

Synonyms

absolute zero, also-ran, bag of shells, bagatelle, base, bric-a-brac, chopped liver, cipher, contemptible, crumb, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fiddling, fig, flyspeck, foolish, footling, for the birds, frivolous, futile, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, Joe Nobody, like a fart in a windstorm, lilliputian, little, little guy, meager, mean, minnow, minor, minuity, nebbish, negligible, niff-naff, niggling, no one, nobody, nondescript, nonentity, nothing, nothingburger, paltry, peevish, peon, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piddly, piffling, pip-squeak, pissant, pitiful, pleb, pointless, prole, puny, quidam, rinky-dink, scuddick, shrimp, silly, simple, slight, sop, tin-pot, toy, trick, trifle, trifling, trivial, triviality, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, wankstain, whiffle, white chip, worthless, wretched, zero, zilch

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