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Trifling vs Bumptious - What's the difference?

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Trifling is a related term of bumptious.


As adjectives the difference between trifling and bumptious

is that trifling is trivial, or of little importance while bumptious is obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.

As a noun trifling

is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

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

    bumptious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
  • * 1877 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) :
  • "There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, querulously. "What is the use of having brains in our profession. I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it." I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation; I thought it best to change the topic.
  • * 1918 , , The Mirror and the Lamp , ch. 22:
  • From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious ; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
  • * 1928 , (Virginia Woolf), :
  • She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.

    Derived terms

    * bumptiously * bumptiousness