Boyish vs Trifling - What's the difference?
boyish | trifling | Related terms |
Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
trivial, or of little importance
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idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
Boyish is a related term of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between boyish and trifling
is that boyish is like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.boyish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- People disliked his boyish and juvenile behaviour.
- Her boyish figure belied her femininity.
trifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.