FRIVOLOUS DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
frivolous adj 1: not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman" [ant: serious] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) frivolous adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin frivolus Date: 15th century 1. a. of little weight or importance b. having no sound basis (as in fact or law) <a frivolous lawsuit> 2. a. lacking in seriousness b. marked by unbecoming levity • frivolously adverb • frivolousness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary frivolous 1. If you describe someone as frivolous, you mean they behave in a silly or light-hearted way, rather than being serious and sensible. I just decided I was a bit too frivolous to be a doctor... ADJ 2. If you describe an activity as frivolous, you disapprove of it because it is not useful and wastes time or money. The group says it wants politicians to stop wasting public money on what it believes are frivolous projects. ADJ [disapproval] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Frivolous \Friv"o*lous\, a. [L. frivolus; prob. akin to friare to rub, crumble, E. friable: cf. F. frivole.] 1. Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. --Swift. 2. Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. His personal tastes were low and frivolous. --Macaulay. Syn: Trifling; trivial; slight; petty; worthless. -- Friv"o*lous*ly, adv. -- Friv"o*lous*ness, n. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms frivolous a. Trifling, trivial, worthless, light, petty, flimsy, idle, puerile, childish, trashy, foolish. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) frivolous ˈfrɪvələs adj. 1 trifling, inconsequential, unimportant, trivial, nugatory, insignificant, minor, petty, paltry, niggling, peripheral, superficial, worthless, Colloq small-time, Brit twopenny, two a penny, US two-bit, penny-ante, nitty-gritty: Don't waste my time with frivolous details. 2 scatterbrained, bird-brained, silly, feather-brained, irresponsible, flippant, casual, flighty, giddy, foolish, childish, puerile; airy, light, slight, Brit airy-fairy, Colloq flip: Try to be serious and less frivolous about such important matters. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 146 Moby Thesaurus words for "frivolous": aimless, airy, amorphous, asinine, birdbrained, birdwitted, brainless, buxom, capricious, casual, catchpenny, childish, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, dizzy, empty, empty-headed, erratic, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, fitful, flighty, flimsy, flip, flippant, fluffy, fluttery, foolish, formless, fribble, fribbling, frothy, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, gleeful, gratuitous, haphazard, harebrain, harebrained, hilarious, hit-or-miss, idle, immethodical, inane, inchoate, incoherent, inconsequential, indiscriminate, insignificant, irregular, irresponsible, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughter-loving, light, meaningless, merry, minor, mirth-loving, mirthful, misshapen, niggling, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, nugacious, nugatory, orderless, otiose, paltry, peripheral, petty, planless, playful, promiscuous, puerile, random, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, rejoicing, risible, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, senseless, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, shapeless, shatterbrained, silly, slender, slight, small-time, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, superficial, systemless, thoughtless, trifling, trite, trivial, two-bit, twopenny, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unimportant, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unprofound, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, volatile, wandering, windy, witless, worthless |
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