Synonyms for piddling
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Petty — insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless
petty, trifling, picayune US, insignificant, trivial, inconsequential, paltry, little, meager US CA, meagre UK, inconsiderable, unimportant, fiddling, minor, niggling, negligible, worthless, frivolous, mean, slight, immaterial, piffling informal, picayunish
Definitions
- adj. 1
Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
Example sentences
- petty Sami started getting into trouble for petty theft.
- trivial The conclusion may seem trivial: Esperanto exists.
- insignificant There is no such thing as an insignificant detail.
- trifling Their trouble stems from a trifling matter.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| piddling | steady | |
| petty | steady | |
| trivial | rising | |
| insignificant | falling | |
| trifling | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- mean1
- 5 letters
- minor2, petty2
- 6 letters
- little2, slight1, meager2, paltry2, meagre
- 7 letters
- trivial3
- 8 letters
- fiddling2, trifling2, picayune3, niggling, piffling
- 9 letters
- worthless2, frivolous3
- 10 letters
- negligible4, immaterial5, picayunish
- 11 letters
- unimportant4
- 13 letters
- insignificant5
- 14 letters
- inconsiderable
- 15 letters
- inconsequential5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (minor2 = 2 syllables).