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Word Meanings - TRIFLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.

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  • SLIGHTNESS
    The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
  • CHILDISHNESS
    The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • SILLYHOW
    A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
  • SLIGHTEN
    To slight. B. Jonson.
  • DESPICABLE
    Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
  • SLIGHTINGLY
    In a slighting manner.
  • RESPECT
    An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
  • IMBECILE
    Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
  • BABBLEMENT
    Babble. Hawthorne.
  • CHILDISH
    1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
  • DRIVEL
    To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
  • NOTICE
    1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
  • RESPECTER
    One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
  • PITIFUL
    1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11. 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser. 3. To be
  • SNIVELER
    One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.
  • INANE
    That which is void or empty. The undistinguishable inane of infinite space. Locke.
  • FATUITY
    Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
  • CONTEMPTIBLENESS
    The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • TRIFLE
    trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • BY-RESPECT
    Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
  • UNRESPECT
    Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.

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