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Synonyms for trinket

Most common

toy bric-a-brac bagatelle novelty bauble gimcrack curio kickshaw

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Toy — A thing of little practical and/or monetary value; a toy, a trifle

toy, bric-a-brac, trifle, fig, triviality, bagatelle, picayune US

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A thing of little practical and/or monetary value; a toy, a trifle.

    It’s only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.

  2. n. 2

    A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.

    That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.

  3. n. 3

    A narrow or small watercourse.

Related words

Word family
trinkety trinklement
Is a kind of
ornament trifle unimportance

Forms

Plural
trinkets → toys, bric-a-bracs, trifles, figs…

Example sentences

  • toy You need to store small toy parts in a safe place.
  • novelty As the days dragged on, the novelty wore off.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
trinketrising
toyrising
bagatellesteady
noveltyrising
baublerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
toy1, fig1
4 letters
gaud
5 letters
knack1, curio3
6 letters
trifle2, bangle2, bauble2, mathom
7 letters
novelty3
8 letters
picayune3, gimcrack, kickshaw
9 letters
plaything2, bagatelle
10 letters
triviality5
11 letters
trinklement

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (curio3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
colifichet