Trifling vs Insignificant - What's the difference?
trifling | insignificant | Related terms |
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
Not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect.
Trifling is a related term of insignificant.
As adjectives the difference between trifling and insignificant
is that trifling is trivial, or of little importance while insignificant is not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect.As a noun trifling
is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.trifling
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.
Anagrams
* flirtinginsignificant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal.