Vacant vs Trifling - What's the difference?
vacant | trifling | Related terms |
Not occupied; empty.
Showing no intelligence or interest.
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
Vacant is a related term of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between vacant and trifling
is that vacant is not occupied; empty while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.vacant
English
Adjective
(-)- vacant lot
- ''a vacant stare
Synonyms
* (Not occupied) available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied * (Showing no intelligence or interest) vacuous, thousand mile stareDerived terms
* vacancy noun * vacantly adverbtrifling
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.