Trifling vs Lesser - What's the difference?
trifling | lesser | 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
(little)
of two things, the smaller in size, value, importance etc.
a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
Trifling is a related term of lesser.
As adjectives the difference between trifling and lesser
is that trifling is trivial, or of little importance while lesser is (little).As nouns the difference between trifling and lesser
is that trifling is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour while lesser is a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.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
* flirtinglesser
English
Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* lesser anteater * Lesser Antilles * lesser celandine * lesser extent * lesser evil, lesser of two evils * lesser flamingo * lesser included offense * lesser nothura * lesser spotted woodpeckerNoun
(en noun)- the lesser of two evils
- The greater sand hills increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lessers do.