Petty Synonyms and Antonyms

pĕtē
Mean
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. small-minded
  2. mean
  3. lilliputian
  4. little
  5. parochial
  6. piddling
  7. picayune
  8. trivial
  9. close-minded
  10. narrow
  11. base
  12. childish
  13. chintzy
  14. contemptible
  15. diminutive
  16. frivolous
  17. ignoble
  18. narrow-minded
  19. inconsiderable
  20. inessential
  21. inferior
  22. fiddling
  23. insignificant
  24. irrelevant
  25. footling
  26. insular
  27. meager
  28. measly
  29. minor
  30. nagging
  31. nugatory
  32. paltry
  33. pettifogging
  34. puny
  35. shabby
  36. shallow
  37. slight
  38. small
  39. subordinate
  40. trifling
  41. unimportant
  42. piffling
Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. carping
  2. caviling
  3. petit larceny
  4. criticism
  5. faultfinding
  6. nitpicking
  7. parochialism
  8. pettiness
  9. triviality
  10. petty larceny
Antonyms:
  1. grand larceny
Of small importance; trivial:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. trivial

Words Related to Petty

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Petty Sentence Examples

  • All the petty supervising establishments are composed of convicts.

  • In Wischau itself, a petty German town, Rostov saw the Emperor again.

  • They acted also as police courts in the case of petty thefts, breaches of the peace and the like.

  • Behind the College is the Royal Hospital School, where woo boys, sons of petty officers and seamen, are boarded.

  • He had annihilated the petty kings of the South, had crushed the aristocracy, enforced the acceptance of Christianity throughout the kingdom, asserted his suzerainty in the Orkney Islands, had humbled the king of Sweden and married his daughter in his despite, and had conducted a successful raid on Denmark.

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