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.
[1913 Webster]
They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which
toucheth us. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trifling \Tri"fling\, a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trifling
adj : not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry
for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a
trifling matter" [syn: negligible, paltry]
n : the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn:
dalliance, dawdling, wasting time]
WordNet (r) 2.0
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "trifling":
Mickey Mouse, airy, asinine, banal, bickering, brimful, brimming,
captious, catchpenny, caviling, chic, chipper, chitchat,
chitter-chatter, choplogic, classy, commonplace, coquetry, crammed,
crowded, cursory, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dashing, dawdling,
depthless, dillydallying, dolce far niente, empty, equivocatory,
evasive, fashionable, fatuous, few, fiddling, flimsy, flirtation,
fooling, fooling around, foolish, footling, fribble, fribbling,
frivolous, frothy, futile, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging,
hollow, idle, idling, inane, incidental, inconsequential,
inconsiderable, insignificant, insipid, jammed, jejune,
jerking off, kidding around, lazing, light, lingering, little,
loaded, loafing, logic-chopping, loitering, lolling, lounging, low,
meager, measly, messing around, miniature, minor, modish,
monkeying, monkeying around, mopery, neat, negligible, niggling,
nit-picking, no great shakes, nugacious, nugatory, orderly, otiose,
packed, paltering, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling,
playing, playing around, pottering, puny, pussyfooting, puttering,
quibbling, shallow, sharp, shipshape, short, shuffling, silly,
skin-deep, slender, slight, small, smart, smattering, snappy, snug,
spick-and-span, superficial, swank, tarrying, tidy, tinkering,
tiny, toying, trichoschistic, trig, trim, trite, trivial,
uncluttered, unimportant, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid,
well-groomed, windy, worthless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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