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Unimportant vs Trifling - What's the difference?

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Trifling is a antonym of unimportant.

Trifling is a synonym of unimportant.



As adjectives the difference between unimportant and trifling

is that unimportant is petty; not important or noteworthy while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.

As a noun trifling is

the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

unimportant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • petty; not important or noteworthy
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    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