Folly vs Trifling - What's the difference?
folly | trifling | Synonyms |
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Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
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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
Folly is a synonym of trifling.
As nouns the difference between folly and trifling
is that folly is while trifling is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.As an adjective trifling is
trivial, or of little importance.folly
English
Noun
(follies)- This is a war of folly .
- The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
- A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly .
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.
