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Trifling vs Miniscule - What's the difference?

trifling | miniscule |

As adjectives the difference between trifling and miniscule

is that trifling is trivial, or of little importance while miniscule is misspelling of lang=en.

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

    Related terms

    * trifle

    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

    miniscule

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial)

    • Usage notes

    * “The correct spelling is minuscule' rather than ' miniscule . The latter is a common error, which has arisen by analogy with other words beginning with “mini”, where the meaning is similarly ‘very small’.” * At the time of writing (22 May 2012), the number of hits in the printed works listed in Google Books for minuscule' outnumbers those for ' miniscule by a large amount (by 1,990,000 to 422,000, a ratio of roughly 5:1). In contrast, the numbers of hits on Google (with language set to English) are 13,000,000 to 10,900,000, a ratio of about 6:5. English misspellings