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Another word for trifle

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Noun

  1. Something or things that are unimportant

    See also:

    surface

    important

  2. A small showy article

    See also:

    thing

  3. A tiny amount

    See also:

    big

Verb

  1. To treat lightly or flippantly

    See also:

    work

  2. To move one's fingers or hands in a nervous or aimless fashion

    See also:

    touch

  3. To make amorous advances without serious intentions

    See also:

    sex

Idioms:

    trifle away

  1. To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work

    2. trifle away

  2. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly

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Another word for trifle

Noun

  1. A small quantity

    See also:

    bit

  2. A small degree

    See also:

    bit

  3. Something of little importance

    See also:

    insignificance

Verb

  1. To act without seriousness

    See also:

    tamper with

    change

  2. To flirt

    See also:

    flirt

    play

Synonym Study

  • Toy implies a trifling or dallying with no purpose beyond that of amusement or idling away time toying with the idea of writing a novel
  • Coquet usually suggests a trifling in matters of love she coquetted with several men in her department
  • Trifle is the general term meaning to treat someone or something without earnestness, full attention, definite purpose, etc. began to trifle with the notion of retirement, trifling with her affections flirt implies a light, transient interest or attention that quickly moves on to another person or thing flirted with several religions before becoming a philosopher dally implies a playing with a subject or thing that one has little or no intention of taking seriously to dally with painting
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Sentence Examples

  • "Oh nothing, only a trifle," said Natasha, smilingly still more brightly.

  • That the people themselves did not regard the reform as a trifle is plain from the numerous rebellions against it.

  • His earliest publication, the anonymous pamphlet of The Pentland Rising, had appeared in 1866, and The Charity Bazaar, a trifle in which his future manner is happily displayed, in 1868.

  • He prayed fervently against his idleness; he determined, as often as he received the sacrament, that he would no longer doze away and trifle away his time; but the spell under which he lay resisted prayer and sacrament.

  • We may also mention Cupido Cruciatus, Cupid on the cross; Technopaegion, a literary trifle consisting of a collection of verses ending in monosyllables; Eclogarum Liber, on astronomical and astrological subjects; Epistolae, including letters to Paulinus and Symmachus; lastly, Praefatiunculae, three poetical epistles, one to the emperor Theodosius.

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