What does trifling mean?

Definitions for trifling
ˈtraɪ flɪŋtri·fling

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dalliance, dawdling, triflingadjective

    the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

  2. negligible, paltry, triflingadjective

    not worth considering

    "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

Wiktionary

  1. triflingadjective

    trivial, or of little importance

  2. triflingadjective

    idle or frivolous

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Triflingadjective

    Wanting worth; unimportant; wanting weight.

    Etymology: from trifle.

    To a soul supported with an assurance of the divine favour, the honours or afflictions of this life will be equally trifling and contemptible. John Rogers, Sermons.

ChatGPT

  1. trifling

    Trifling generally refers to something that is considered insignificant, trivial, or of minor importance. It can also describe something or someone that is unimportant, frivolous, superficial, or has little value or worth.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trifling

    of Trifle

  2. Triflingadjective

    being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trifling in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trifling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of trifling in a Sentence

  1. Magha:

    The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

  2. Laertius Diogenes:

    Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

  3. William Hazlitt:

    Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  4. Franklin Pierce:

    Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  5. Mark Twain:

    There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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