Ridiculous vs Trifling - What's the difference?
ridiculous | trifling | Related terms |
Deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd.
trivial, or of little importance
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idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
Ridiculous is a related term of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between ridiculous and trifling
is that ridiculous is deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.ridiculous
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- That hairstyle looks ridiculous .
- It's ridiculous to charge so much for a little souvenir.
Synonyms
* silly * willy nilly * frivolous * goofy * funny * humorous * absurd * odd * surreal * unreasonable * See alsoAntonyms
* straightforward * serious * somber * solemnDerived terms
* ridic * ridiculousnessExternal links
* * English words suffixed with -oustrifling
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.