Trifling vs Petty - What's the difference?
trifling | petty | Synonyms |
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, small, secondary in rank or importance.
Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
Narrow-minded, small-minded.
Petty is a synonym of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between trifling and petty
is that trifling is trivial, or of little importance while petty is little, small, secondary in rank or importance.As a noun trifling
is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.As a proper noun Petty is
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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
* flirtingpetty
English
(wikipedia petty)Adjective
(en-adj)- Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.'' (Milton, ''Samson Agonistes , 1671)
- petty officer'', ''petty cash
- a petty fault