Frivolent vs Null - What's the difference?
frivolent | null |
(nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly
*"This was an unnecessary and frivolent post that did not contain any reason or logic." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.computer.ultima.series/msg/4dd74e0205254b64]
*"You're beginning to annoy me with frivolent and useless theoretical arguments. " — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips/msg/e4d760b0a4bf5722]
*"I'm sorry but I have personally seen so many people paid out on fraudulent and frivolent claims to have any faith in the system as it currently stands. " — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/uk.legal.moderated/msg/551e5debdc0715f1]
*"My serious replies tend to evoke 'I couldn't worship that sort of a God' responses. My frivolent replies are usually intended to show that some of the criticisms aimed at my serious replies aren't as well-founded as the person making them seems to think." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/uk.religion.christian/msg/4110e62d55ad2c2b] A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective frivolent
is (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.frivolent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.