Ineffective vs Trifling - What's the difference?
ineffective | trifling | Related terms |
not having the desired effect; ineffectual
lacking in ability; incompetent or inadequate
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
Ineffective is a related term of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between ineffective and trifling
is that ineffective is not having the desired effect; ineffectual while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.ineffective
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Adjective
(en adjective)trifling
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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.