trifling

Meanings

Plural: triflings

Noun

• the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
• The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

Verb

• waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
• act frivolously
• consider not very seriously
  • "He is trifling with her"
• present participle and gerund of trifle

Adjective Satellite

• not worth considering
  • "a trifling matter"

Adj

• Trivial, or of little importance.
• Idle or frivolous.
• Action seen as nasty and/or dirty.
• Good-for-nothing, scrub, lazy.

Synonyms

base, contemptible, dalliance, dally, dawdling, foolish, for the birds, frivol, 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, piddle, piddle away, piddly, pissant, pitiful, play, pointless, silly, simple, slight, tin-pot, trifle, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, wanton, wanton away, worthless, wretched

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