pissant

Meanings

Plural: pissants

Noun

• An ant.
• An insignificant person.
• A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
• A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.

Adj

• Insignificant or unimportant.

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, nobody, nondescript, nothingburger, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pissant, pitiful, pointless, silly, simple, slight, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched