Incautious vs Trifling - What's the difference?
incautious | trifling | Related terms |
careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution
* 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
trivial, or of little importance
* 2005 , .
idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
As adjectives the difference between incautious and trifling
is that incautious is careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.incautious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "You might have remained so still," replies Jones, "if you had not been unfortunate, I will venture to say incautious , in the placing your affections.
- "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.
Derived terms
* incautiouslytrifling
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.
