12 definitions found for Trifling

Trifling TRI'FLING, ppr. Acting or talking with levity, or without seriousness or being in earnest.
1. a. Being of small value or importance; trivial; as a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
TRI'FLING, n. Employment about things of no importance.

trifling adj 1: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" [syn: negligible, paltry, trifling] n 1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working [syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling]

trifling flirting

trifling adjective Date: 1535 lacking in significance or solid worth: as a. frivolous <trifling talk> b. trivial <a trifling gift> c. chiefly dialect lazy, shiftless <a trifling fellow>

trifling
adj.
1 unimportant, petty.
2 frivolous.
Derivatives:
triflingly adv.

trifling A trifling matter is small and unimportant. Outside California these difficulties may seem fairly trifling. ...a comparatively trifling 360 yards. = trivial ADJ: oft a ADJ amount

trifling ˈtraɪflɪŋ adj. 1 unimportant, petty. 2 frivolous. øøtriflingly adv.

Trifle Tri"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trifling.] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.] To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. --Hooker. To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.

Trifling Tri"fling, a. Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.

trifling a. Trivial, petty, frivolous, frippery, worthless, inconsiderable, nugatory, slight, unimportant, insignificant, immaterial, piddling, of little value or consequence, of no moment, of small importance.

trifling ˈtraɪflɪŋ adj. trivial, insignificant, unimportant, puny, minor, paltry, slight, petty, inconsequential, frivolous, superficial, incidental, negligible, commonplace, inconsiderable, shallow, valueless, worthless, US and Canadian picayune, Colloq piddling: Their contribution to musical scholarship has been trifling.

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