Frivolous \Friv"o*lous\, a. [L. frivolus; prob. akin to friare
to rub, crumble, E. friable: cf. F. frivole.]
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1. Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight;
as, a frivolous argument. --Swift.
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2. Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly;
interested especially in trifling matters.
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His personal tastes were low and frivolous.
--Macaulay.
Syn: Trifling; trivial; slight; petty; worthless. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
frivolous
adj : not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous
novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"
[ant: serious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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