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Inconstant vs Trifling - What's the difference?

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Inconstant is a related term of trifling.


As adjectives the difference between inconstant and trifling

is that inconstant is not constant; wavering while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.

As a noun trifling is

the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

inconstant

English

Alternative forms

* inconstaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not constant; wavering.
  • trifling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • trivial, or of little importance
  • * 2005 , .
  • it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
  • idle or frivolous
  • Synonyms

    * trivial * inconsequential * petty * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
  • * George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
  • 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.

    Anagrams

    * flirting