Petty vs Towering - What's the difference?

petty | towering |

As a proper noun petty

is .

As a verb towering is

As an adjective towering is

very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.

As a noun towering is

the act or condition of being high above others.

petty

English

(wikipedia petty)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.

Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.'' (Milton, ''Samson Agonistes , 1671)

petty officer'', ''petty cash

Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.

a petty fault

Narrow-minded, small-minded.

Derived terms

* petty cash * petty officer * petty king * pettiness * petty crime

Synonyms

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towering

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.

*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Marc Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Stoke 0-2 Fulham , passage=And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.}}

Noun

(en noun)

The act or condition of being high above others.

* 1829 , John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors

Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings , or are left behind in envy or despair.

* (Robert Burns)

But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.