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Piddling vs Insignificant - What's the difference?

piddling | insignificant | Synonyms |

Piddling is a synonym of insignificant.


As adjectives the difference between piddling and insignificant

is that piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless while insignificant is not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect.

As a verb piddling

is .

piddling

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
    • After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
    The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.

    Verb

    (head)

    • insignificant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect.
    • Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * significant

    Derived terms

    * insignificance * insignificantly