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Trifling definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

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>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

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

Moby Thesaurus

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