Synonyms for petty
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Trivial
small, insignificant, frivolous; see trivial, unimportant.
Mean
small-minded, close-minded, narrow, narrow-minded, insular, parochial; see also mean 3.
Inferior
puny, weak, undersized; see poor 2.
See petty in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Contemptibly unimportant:
inconsiderable, negligible, niggling, nugatory, paltry, picayune, piddling, small, small-minded, trifling. (Slang) measly. Idiom: of no account. See importantNot broad or elevated in scope or understanding:
limited, little, narrow, narrow-minded, small, small-minded. See limited, wideUngenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money:
cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See giveBelow another in standing or importance:
inferior, junior, lesser, low, lower2, minor, minor-league, secondary, small, subaltern, subordinate, under. (Informal) smalltime. See over
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