fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; piddling; piffling; petty; picayune; trivial




(informal) small and of little importance

"a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

Nearest:
  • unimportant


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